Abstract
Detection of relic gravitational waves, through their imprint in the cosmic microwave background radiation, is one of the most important tasks for the planned CMBPol mission. In the simplest viable theoretical models the gravitational wave background is characterized by two parameters, the tensor-to-scalar ratio r and the tensor spectral index nt. In this paper, we analyze the potential joint constraints on these two parameters, r and nt, using the potential observations of the CMBPol mission, which is expected to detect the relic gravitational waves if r≳0.001. The influence of the contaminations, including cosmic weak lensing, various foreground emissions, and systematical errors, is discussed.
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