First Year WMAP Results: Implications for cosmology and inflation

Hiranya Peiris
Princeton University
hiranya@astro.princeton.edu

4:15-5:15 Tuesday -- date 2003

Abstract

The highly-anticipated first year data release from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe took place earlier this year. WMAP measured cosmological parameters with unprecedented accuracy, and detected the signature of the first stars to form in the Universe. I will present the WMAP results, focusing in particular on the implications of these results for inflation, the currently dominant theory of structure formation.

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