Sentences with phrase «extragalactic polarization»

BICEP stands for «Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization».

► Finally, in this week's Science editorial, Michael S. Turner makes a plea for curiosity - based science, pointing to scientific connections between two recent momentous discoveries, the Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization (BICEP2) detection of evidence of gravitational waves in the cosmic microwave background (still subject to confirmation) and the detection of the Higgs boson.

The experience was disappointing for the team behind BICEP (Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization).

Most of them were careful to point out that the revolutionary claim from the scientists involved in the experiment, which used the BICEP2 telescope (for Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization, second generation), must be confirmed by additional experiments that could rule out alternative explanations.

The discovery comes from observations by a small but sophisticated telescope at the South Pole dedicated to a project known as the Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization (BICEP).

Since astronomers don't know much about how strongly galactic dust polarizes light, researchers involved in the Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization, or BICEP, experiment relied on whatever information they could get their hands on.

In 2014 a team of cosmologists using the BICEP2 (Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization) instrument announced it had glimpsed something spectacular: evidence of cosmic inflation, a long - theorized phenomenon thought to have occurred right after the big bang.

† I indicated August before, that would be the very earliest possible, it could take up to one to two years to match the results of several instruments set out to detect the Gravitational Waves with BICEP2, BICEP — Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization, the one stationed in the South Pole that made this discovery.