12-15 July 2011
Saint George Hotel
Africa/Johannesburg timezone

CMB Tensor Anisotropies in f(R) Gravity

14 Jul 2011, 08:00
15m
Acro2

Acro2

Oral Presentation Track D1 - Astrophysics APSS

Speaker

Mr Hassan Bourhrous (University of Cape Town)

Description

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) carries information from the last scattering surface that puts constraints on the multitude of proposed cosmological models and the gravity theories they are based on. Amongst such theories are the f(R) theories of gravity which have become an interesting endeavour to correct for the degeneracies of the concordance model. We present a description of CMB anisotropies generated by tensor perturbations in f(R) theories of gravity. The power spectra of the observables TT and EE in the special case of f(R)=Rn are computed using a modified version of CAMB.

Level (Hons, MSc, <br> &nbsp; PhD, other)? MSc
Would you like to <br> submit a short paper <br> for the Conference <br> Proceedings (Yes / No)? No
Consider for a student <br> &nbsp; award (Yes / No)? Yes

Primary author

Mr Hassan Bourhrous (University of Cape Town)

Co-authors

Dr Alvaro de la Cruz-Dombriz (University of Cape Town/Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Prof. Peter Dunsby (University of Cape Town)

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