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On the degeneracy between primordial tensor modes and cosmic strings in future CMB data from Planck
Jon Urrestilla, Pia Mukherjee, Andrew R. Liddle +3
While observations indicate that the predominant source of cosmic inhomogeneities are adiabatic perturbations, there are a variety of candidates to provide auxiliary trace effects,…
Cosmic microwave anisotropies from BPS semilocal strings
Jon Urrestilla, Neil Bevis, Mark Hindmarsh +2
We present the first ever calculation of cosmic microwave background CMB anisotropy power spectra from semilocal cosmic strings, obtained via simulations of a classical field theor…
CMB polarization power spectra contributions from a network of cosmic strings
Neil Bevis, Mark Hindmarsh, Martin Kunz +1
We present the first calculation of the possible (local) cosmic string contribution to the cosmic microwave background polarization spectra from simulations of a string network (ra…
Fitting CMB data with cosmic strings and inflation
Neil Bevis, Mark Hindmarsh, Martin Kunz +1
We perform a multiparameter likelihood analysis to compare measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) power spectra with predictions from models involving cosmic strings…
CMB power spectrum contribution from cosmic strings using field-evolution simulations of the Abelian Higgs model
Neil Bevis, Mark Hindmarsh, Martin Kunz +1
We present the first field-theoretic calculations of the contribution made by cosmic strings to the temperature power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Unlike prev…
Semilocal Cosmic String Networks
A. Achucarro, P. Salmi, J. Urrestilla
We report on a large scale numerical study of networks of semilocal cosmic strings in flat space in the parameter regime in which they are perturbatively stable. We find a populati…