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Matthew Petroff

Center for Astrophysics

Postdoctoral Fellow

Matthew Petroff

matthew.petroff@cfa.harvard.edu

About

Matthew Petroff is an observational cosmologist whose primary research focus involves cosmic microwave background instrumentation and data analysis.

PhD in Physics & Astronomy, MA in Physics & Astronomy, BS in Physics and Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University

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BICEP

The first moments after the Big Bang are literally hidden from us: the entire cosmos was too hot and dense for any light to pierce. However, signs of what happened then could be imprinted on the cosmic microwave background (CMB), a cold sea of light filling the modern universe. The BICEP Program is an international collaboration looking for those signs using telescopes at the South Pole. Researchers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian play a leading role in this project, which could provide the first discovery of gravitational waves produced when the universe was just a fraction of a second old.

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