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Exploring the Early Universe with Gravitational Waves

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Cosmology is the study of the evolution of our universe, from the Big Bang to the formation of galaxies.

Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.

—Maria Mitchell

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    Note that at the time of writing this thesis, there was still no consensus on whether the BICEP2 team had actually detected gravitational waves. By now it is clear that their data cannot give us conclusive evidence as their signal was dominated by galactic dust [18].

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Bethke, L.B. (2015). Introduction. In: Exploring the Early Universe with Gravitational Waves. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17449-5_1

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