TY - JOUR
T1 - Cosmological parameters from pre-planck cosmic microwave background measurements
AU - Calabrese, Erminia
AU - Hlozek, Renée A.
AU - Battaglia, Nick
AU - Battistelli, Elia S.
AU - Bond, J. Richard
AU - Chluba, Jens
AU - Crichton, Devin
AU - Das, Sudeep
AU - Devlin, Mark J.
AU - Dunkley, Joanna
AU - Dünner, Rolando
AU - Farhang, Marzieh
AU - Gralla, Megan B.
AU - Hajian, Amir
AU - Halpern, Mark
AU - Hasselfield, Matthew
AU - Hincks, Adam D.
AU - Irwin, Kent D.
AU - Kosowsky, Arthur
AU - Louis, Thibaut
AU - Marriage, Tobias A.
AU - Moodley, Kavilan
AU - Newburgh, Laura
AU - Niemack, Michael D.
AU - Nolta, Michael R.
AU - Page, Lyman A.
AU - Sehgal, Neelima
AU - Sherwin, Blake D.
AU - Sievers, Jonathan L.
AU - Sifón, Cristóbal
AU - Spergel, David N.
AU - Staggs, Suzanne T.
AU - Switzer, Eric R.
AU - Wollack, Edward J.
PY - 2013/5/20
Y1 - 2013/5/20
N2 - 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 Neff=3.28±0.40, in agreement with the standard model's three species of light neutrinos.
AB - 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 Neff=3.28±0.40, in agreement with the standard model's three species of light neutrinos.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84877967699&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=84877967699&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevD.87.103012
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.87.103012
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84877967699
SN - 1550-7998
VL - 87
JO - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
JF - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
IS - 10
M1 - 103012
ER -