Inflation and the cosmic microwave background

Abstract

I give a status report and outlook concerning the use of the cosmic microwave background anisotropies to constrain the inflationary cosmology, and stress its crucial role as an underlying paradigm for the estimation of cosmological parameters.

8 pages LaTeX file, with two figures incorporated using epsf. To appear, proceedings of `The non-sleeping universe', Porto (Astrophysics and Space Science)

References in corpus (4)

• Microwave Background Constraints on Cosmological Parameters
• On the Problem of Predicting Inflationary Perturbations
• Primordial Gravitational Waves From Open Inflation
• Wall fluctuation modes and tensor CMB anisotropy in open inflation models