Inflation After WMAP
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
I examine the status of inflationary cosmology in light of the first-year data from the WMAP satellite, focusing on the simplest models of inflation: those driven by a single scalar field. The WMAP observation of the Cosmic Microwave Background is the first unified, self-consistent data set capable of putting meaningful constraints on the inflationary parameter space. WMAP provides significant support for the inflationary paradigm in general, and single-field slow-roll inflation models provide a good fit to existing observational constraints.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0406670,
title = {Inflation After WMAP},
author = {William H. Kinney},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0406670},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
8 pages, 4 figures. To appear in the proceedings of the XXXIXth Rencontres de Moriond "Exploring the Universe"