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CMB polarization as complementary information to anisotropies
Comptes Rendus. Physique, the cosmic microwave background, Volume 4 (2003) no. 8, pp. 917-924.

The origin of CMB polarization is reviewed. Special emphasis is placed on the cosmological information encoded in it: the nature of primordial fluctuations, the connection with the inflation paradigm. Insights into more recent epochs are also discussed: early reionization and high redshift matter distribution from CMB lensing.

L'origine de la polarisation du CMB est passée en revue. On insiste plus particulièrement sur l'information qu'elle contient : la nature des fluctuations primordiales, le lien avec le paradigme de l'inflation. On discute aussi les aperçus apportés sur des époques plus récentes : la réionisation précoce et la distribution de matière pour des hauts décalages vers le rouge.

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DOI: 10.1016/j.crhy.2003.10.006
Keywords: Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropies, Cosmology, Early Universe
Mots-clés : Anisotropies du fond de rayonnement cosmique, Cosmologie, Univers primordial

Jean Kaplan 1; Jacques Delabrouille 1; Pablo Fosalba 2; Cyrille Rosset 1

1 Physique corpusculaire et cosmologie, Collège de France, 11, place Marcelin Berthelot, 75231 Paris cedex 05, France
2 Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, 2680 Woodlawn Drive, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
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Jean Kaplan; Jacques Delabrouille; Pablo Fosalba; Cyrille Rosset. CMB polarization as complementary information to anisotropies. Comptes Rendus. Physique, the cosmic microwave background, Volume 4 (2003) no. 8, pp. 917-924. doi : 10.1016/j.crhy.2003.10.006. https://comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/physique/articles/10.1016/j.crhy.2003.10.006/

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