On de Sitter Radiation via Quantum Tunneling

We discuss why the tunneling picture does not necessarily lead to Hawking radiation from the de Sitter horizon. The experience with the condensed matter analogs of the event horizon suggests that the de Sitter vacuum is stable against Hawking radiation. On the other hand, the detector immersed in the de Sitter background will detect the radiation, which looks thermal, with the effective temperature twice as large as the Hawking temperature associated with the cosmological horizon.