Cosmological parameters from pre-planck cosmic microwave background measurements

Erminia Calabrese; Renée A. Hlozek; Nick Battaglia; Elia S. Battistelli; J. Richard Bond; Jens Chluba; Devin Crichton; Sudeep Das; Mark J. Devlin; Joanna Dunkley; Rolando Dünner; Marzieh Farhang; Megan B. Gralla; Amir Hajian; Mark Halpern; Matthew Hasselfield; Adam D. Hincks; Kent D. Irwin; Arthur Kosowsky; Thibaut Louis; Tobias A. Marriage; Kavilan Moodley; Laura Newburgh; Michael D. Niemack; Michael R. Nolta; Lyman A. Page; Neelima Sehgal; Blake D. Sherwin; Jonathan L. Sievers; Cristóbal Sifón; David N. Spergel; Suzanne T. Staggs; Eric R. Switzer; Edward J. Wollack

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.87.103012

Cosmological parameters from pre-planck cosmic microwave background measurements

Erminia Calabrese
, Renée A. Hlozek
, Nick Battaglia
, Elia S. Battistelli
, J. Richard Bond
, Jens Chluba
, Devin Crichton
, Sudeep Das
, Mark J. Devlin
, Joanna Dunkley
, Rolando Dünner
, Marzieh Farhang
, Megan B. Gralla
, Amir Hajian
, Mark Halpern
, Matthew Hasselfield
, Adam D. Hincks
, Kent D. Irwin
, Arthur Kosowsky
, Thibaut Louis

Tobias A. Marriage, Kavilan Moodley, Laura Newburgh, Michael D. Niemack, Michael R. Nolta, Lyman A. Page, Neelima Sehgal, Blake D. Sherwin, Jonathan L. Sievers, Cristóbal Sifón, David N. Spergel, Suzanne T. Staggs, Eric R. Switzer, Edward J. Wollack

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Recent data from the WMAP, ACT and SPT experiments provide precise measurements of the cosmic microwave background temperature power spectrum over a wide range of angular scales. The combination of these observations is well fit by the standard, spatially flat ΛCDM cosmological model, constraining six free parameters to within a few percent. The scalar spectral index, n _s=0.9690±0.0089, is less than unity at the 3.5σ level, consistent with simple models of inflation. The damping tail of the power spectrum at high resolution, combined with the amplitude of gravitational lensing measured by ACT and SPT, constrains the effective number of relativistic species to be N_eff=3.28±0.40, in agreement with the standard model's three species of light neutrinos.

Original language	English
Article number	103012
Journal	Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume	87
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.87.103012
State	Published - May 20 2013

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Calabrese, E., Hlozek, R. A., Battaglia, N., Battistelli, E. S., Bond, J. R., Chluba, J., Crichton, D., Das, S., Devlin, M. J., Dunkley, J., Dünner, R., Farhang, M., Gralla, M. B., Hajian, A., Halpern, M., Hasselfield, M., Hincks, A. D., Irwin, K. D., Kosowsky, A., ... Wollack, E. J. (2013). Cosmological parameters from pre-planck cosmic microwave background measurements. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 87(10), Article 103012. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.87.103012

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