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Cosmic viscosity as a remedy for tension between PLANCK and LSS data

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2017-11-15 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Measurements of σ8\sigma_8 from large scale structure observations show a discordance with the extrapolated σ8\sigma_8 from Planck CMB parameters using Λ\LambdaCDM cosmology. Similar discordance is found in the value of H0H_0 and Ωm\Omega_m. In this paper, we show that the presence of viscosity in cold dark matter, shear or bulk or combination of both, can remove the above mentioned conflicts simultaneously. This indicates that the data from Planck CMB observation and different LSS observations prefer small but non-zero amount of viscosity in cold dark matter fluid.

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@article{arxiv.1708.07030,
  title  = {Cosmic viscosity as a remedy for tension between PLANCK and LSS data},
  author = {Sampurn Anand and Prakrut Chaubal and Arindam Mazumdar and Subhendra Mohanty},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.07030},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

16 pages, 13 figs, matches accepted version in JCAP