PIRSA:17030053

The Spatial Curvature Endgame: Reaching the Limit of Curvature Determination; Group Meeting

Leonard, D. (2017). The Spatial Curvature Endgame: Reaching the Limit of Curvature Determination; Group Meeting. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/17030053

Leonard, Danielle. The Spatial Curvature Endgame: Reaching the Limit of Curvature Determination; Group Meeting. Perimeter Institute, Mar. 09, 2017, https://pirsa.org/17030053 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:17030053,
            doi = {10.48660/17030053},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/17030053},
            author = {Leonard, Danielle},
            keywords = {Cosmology},
            language = {en},
            title = {The Spatial Curvature Endgame: Reaching the Limit of Curvature Determination; Group Meeting},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2017},
            month = {mar},
            note = {PIRSA:17030053 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Danielle Leonard

Newcastle University

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Abstract

Current constraints on spatial curvature demonstrate it to be dynamically negligible at late times. However, neglecting it as a cosmological parameter would be premature, as it offers a valuable test of eternal inflation models and probes novel large-scale structure phenomena. I will discuss a recent project in which a broad and conservative approach was employed to systematically forecast spatial curvature constraints from a suite of upcoming cosmology surveys, while also examining important degeneracies with cosmological parameters and potential sources of systematic error.