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FIRST LIGHT

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Cosmologists couldn't have wished for a better anniversary present. Almost 50 years to the day after the first detection of the Big Bang's afterglow - a faint glimmer of long-wavelength photons known as the cosmic microwave background (CMB) - the field has been galvanized by what may be the last major discovery from the radiation. On 17 March, astronomers announced that a microwave detector at the South Pole had recorded the first signs of primordial 'B modes': subtle, swirling patterns in the CMB data that were imprinted during the early history of the Universe. The result was hailed as direct evidence of gravitational waves, ripples in the fabric of space-time that were produced by a sudden 'inflation' of the Universe a split second after the Big Bang. The most obvious question - is the B-mode signal real? - has sparked a race among teams running telescopes on the ground, in space and carried by balloons. "The name of the game is confirmation," says experimental cosmologist Amber Miller of Columbia University in New York City.
机译:宇宙学家不会希望有一个更好的周年纪念礼物。首次检测到大爆炸的余辉(即被称为宇宙微波背景(CMB)的微弱的长波长光子)之后的近50年时间里,这一领域受到了辐射的最后一次重大发现的刺激。 3月17日,天文学家宣布,南极的一个微波探测器记录了原始“ B模式”的最初迹象:在CMB数据中微妙的旋涡模式已在宇宙的早期历史中留下印记。这一结果被誉为引力波的直接证据,引力波是时空结构中的涟漪,这是宇宙在大爆炸之后一瞬间突然“膨胀”而产生的。最明显的问题-B模式信号真实吗? -引发了在地面,太空和气球载运望远镜的团队之间的竞赛。纽约市哥伦比亚大学的实验宇宙学家安伯·米勒说:“游戏的名字是确定的。”

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    《Nature》 |2014年第7500期|276-278|共3页
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    Joanne Baker;

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  • 收录信息 美国《科学引文索引》(SCI);美国《工程索引》(EI);美国《生物学医学文摘》(MEDLINE);美国《化学文摘》(CA);
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