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Constraining the dynamical dark energy parameters: Planck-2013 vs WMAP9

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2015-06-18 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We determine the best-fit values and confidence limits for dynamical dark energy parameters together with other cosmological parameters on the basis of different datasets which include WMAP9 or Planck-2013 results on CMB anisotropy, BAO distance ratios from recent galaxy surveys, magnitude-redshift relations for distant SNe Ia from SNLS3 and Union2.1 samples and the HST determination of the Hubble constant. We use a Markov Chain Monte Carlo routine to map out the likelihood in the multi-dimensional parameter space. We show that the most precise determination of cosmological parameters with the narrowest confidence limits is obtained for the Planck{+}HST{+}BAO{+}SNLS3 dataset. The best-fit values and 2σ\sigma confidence limits for cosmological parameters in this case are Ωde=0.718±0.022\Omega_{de}=0.718\pm0.022, w0=1.150.16+0.14w_0=-1.15^{+0.14}_{-0.16}, ca2=1.150.46+0.02c_a^2=-1.15^{+0.02}_{-0.46}, Ωbh2=0.0220±0.0005\Omega_bh^2=0.0220\pm0.0005, Ωcdmh2=0.121±0.004\Omega_{cdm}h^2=0.121\pm0.004, h=0.713±0.027h=0.713\pm0.027, ns=0.9580.010+0.014n_s=0.958^{+0.014}_{-0.010}, As=(2.2150.101+0.093)109A_s=(2.215^{+0.093}_{-0.101})\cdot10^{-9}, τrei=0.0930.028+0.022\tau_{rei}=0.093^{+0.022}_{-0.028}. For this dataset, the Λ\LambdaCDM model is just outside the 2σ\sigma confidence region, while for the dataset WMAP9{+}HST{+}BAO{+}SNLS3 the Λ\LambdaCDM model is only 1σ\sigma away from the best fit. The tension in the determination of some cosmological parameters on the basis of two CMB datasets WMAP9 and Planck-2013 is highlighted.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1312.6579,
  title  = {Constraining the dynamical dark energy parameters: Planck-2013 vs WMAP9},
  author = {B. Novosyadlyj and O. Sergijenko and R. Durrer and V. Pelykh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.6579},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

16 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables; accepted for publication in JCAP

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