Cosmology with CMB spectral distortions

by Jens Chluba (Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics)

Tuesday 29 Nov 2016, 13:15 → 14:30 Europe/Stockholm

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The cosmic microwave background (CMB) has proven to be an amazing source or information about the Universe we live in. Beyond any doubt, in the next decades studies of the CMB polarization anisotropies and the CMB energy spectrum will reveal many exciting new pieces to the puzzle. I will give a broad-brush overview of the next steps in cosmology with the CMB, in particular highlighting the immense potential of studies of the CMB spectral distortions -- tiny deviations of the CMB energy spectrum from that of a perfect blackbody -- and its complementarity with CMB anisotropies. [Host: Jon Gudmundsson]