Comparative CMBology: Putting Things Together
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
I present a series of diagrams which illustrate why the cosmic microwave background (CMB) data favor certain values for the cosmological parameters. Various methods to extract these parameters from CMB and non-CMB observations are forming an ever-tightening network of interlocking constraints. I review the increasingly precise constraints in the Omega_m - Omega_Lambda plane and show why more cosmologists now prefer Lambda-CDM cosmologies to any other leading model.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0011448,
title = {Comparative CMBology: Putting Things Together},
author = {Charles H. Lineweaver},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0011448},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
10 pages, 11 figures, Manchester IAU proceedings, "New Cosmological Data and the Values of Fundamental Parameters", edt A. Lasenby, A. Wilkinson