59 citations · 98 across the 2 of their papers we have counts for
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astro-ph.CO2014★ 39 cited
Constraining topological defects with temperature and polarization anisotropies
Joanes Lizarraga, Jon Urrestilla, David Daverio +3
We analyse the possible contribution of topological defects to cosmic microwave anisotropies, both temperature and polarisation. We allow for the presence of both inflationary scal…
astro-ph.CO2014★ 59 cited
Can topological defects mimic the BICEP2 B-mode signal?
Joanes Lizarraga, Jon Urrestilla, David Daverio +3
We show that the B-mode polarization signal detected at low multipoles by BICEP2 cannot be entirely due to topological defects. This would be incompatible with the high-multipole B…