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Cosmological parameters from complementary observations of the Universe

Astrophysics 2011-07-19 v3

Abstract

We use observational data on the large scale structure (LSS) of the Universe measured over a wide range of scales from sub-galactic up to horizon scale and on the cosmic microwave background anisotropies to determine cosmological parameters within the class of adiabatic inflationary models. We show that a mixed dark matter model with cosmological constant (Λ\LambdaMDM model) and parameters Ωm=0.370.15+0.25\Omega_m=0.37^{+0.25}_{-0.15}, ΩΛ=0.690.20+0.15\Omega_{\Lambda}=0.69^{+0.15}_{-0.20}, Ων=0.030.03+0.07\Omega_{\nu}=0.03^{+0.07}_{-0.03}, Nν=1N_{\nu}=1, Ωb=0.0370.018+0.033\Omega_b=0.037^{+0.033}_{-0.018}, ns=1.020.10+0.09n_s=1.02^{+0.09}_{-0.10}, h=0.710.19+0.22h=0.71^{+0.22}_{-0.19}, bcl=2.40.7+0.7b_{cl}=2.4^{+0.7}_{-0.7} (1σ\sigma confidence limits) matches observational data on LSS, the nucleosynthesis constraint, direct measurements of Hubble constant, the high redshift supernova type Ia results and the recent measurements of the location and amplitude of the first acoustic peak in the CMB anisotropy power spectrum. The best model is Λ\Lambda dominated (65% of the total energy density) and has slightly positive curvature, Ω=1.06\Omega=1.06. The clustered matter consists in 8% massive neutrinos, 10% baryons and 82% cold dark matter (CDM). The upper 2σ\sigma limit on the neutrino content can be expressed in the form Ωνh2/Nν0.640.042\Omega_{\nu}h^2/N_{\nu}^{0.64}\le0.042 or, via the neutrino mass, mν4.0m_{\nu}\le4.0eV. The upper 1(2)σ\sigma limit for the contribution of a tensor mode to the COBE DMR data is T/S<1(1.5)<1(1.5). Furthermore, it is shown that the LSS observations together with the Boomerang (+MAXIMA-1) data on the first acoustic peak rule out zero-Λ\Lambda models at more than 2σ2\sigma confidence limit.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0009057,
  title  = {Cosmological parameters from complementary observations of the Universe},
  author = {R. Durrer and B. Novosyadlyj},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0009057},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

13 pages, 3 figures; accepted by MNRAS; minor corrections in the text, a few references are added