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Tibet’s window on primordial gravitational waves

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The Ali Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Telescope — currently under construction in the Ngari prefecture of Tibet — will search for primordial gravitational waves and probe the origin of the Universe.

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Fig. 1: Theoretical predictions of three inflation models and the scheduled AliCPT sensitivity of measurements on r.
Fig. 2: PWV measurements.
Fig. 3: Observable sky of AliCPT in equatorial coordinates.

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Li, H., Li, SY., Liu, Y. et al. Tibet’s window on primordial gravitational waves. Nat Astron 2, 104–106 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-017-0373-0

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