Constraints on Phenomenological Amplitudes of CMB Anisotropy with Multi-Datasets
Abstract
Cosmic microwave background anisotropies encode crucial information about the early Universe and fundamental cosmological physics. Although the standard CDM model provides a successful description of cosmic evolution, persistent cosmological tensions and subtle small-scale anomalies still challenge its internal consistency. In this paper, we investigate six phenomenological amplitude parameters (new=L, SW, Dop, eISW, lISW, Pol) corresponding to the key effects related to CMB anisotropy: the Lensing, Sachs-Wolfe, Doppler, early Integrated Sachs-Wolfe, late Integrated Sachs-Wolfe, and Polarization effects, respectively. Using modified CAMB and Cobaya packages, we constrain the CDM models with two data combinations: Planck+DESI+PantheonPlus (PDP) and Planck+ACT+DESI+PantheonPlus (PADP). Only the CDM+ is favored by AIC, with from PDP and from PADP, which implies 2.16 and 3.06 deviation from the CDM model; values of show 1.21 and 1.96 deviations to 1; is poorly constrained because the lISW effect has negligible influence at ; and others are consistent with the CDM model. Moreover, no noticeable improvement on the Hubble and tensions is found within these one-parameter extended scenarios. ACT DR6 high- data strengthens the CDM preference over the CDM model, and reduces uncertainty by more than one order of magnitude, highlighting the importance of ground-based high- observations for future CMB analyses.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2605.01946,
title = {Constraints on Phenomenological Amplitudes of CMB Anisotropy with Multi-Datasets},
author = {Yang Han and Lu Chen and Guo-Hao Li and Pei-Yuan Xu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.01946},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
15 pages, 7 figures