Things that go bump in the CMB polarization: features from inflation versus reionization
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Michael J. Mortonson, 2, ∗ Cora Dvorkin, 2, † Hiranya V. Peiris, ‡ and Wayne Hu 2, § Department of Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago IL 60637 Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago IL 60637, U.S.A. Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HA, U.K. Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Chicago, Chicago IL 60637 (Dated: March 27, 2009)
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