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Probing the primordial Universe from the low-multipole CMB data

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2015-12-30 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Since the temperature fluctuations in cosmic microwave background (CMB) on large-angular scales probe length scales that were super-horizon sized at photon decoupling and hence insensitive to microphysical processes, the low-multipole CMB data are supposed to be a good probe to the physics of the primordial Universe. In this letter we will constrain the cosmological parameters in the base Λ\LambdaCDM model with tensor perturbations by only using low-multipole CMB data, including Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization (B2), Planck released in 2013 (P13) and Wilkinson Microwaves Anisotropy Probe 9-year data (W9). We find that a red tilted power spectrum of relic gravitational waves is compatible with the data, but a blue tilted power spectrum of scalar perturbations on the large scales is preferred at around 2σ2\sigma confidence level.

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@article{arxiv.1405.0349,
  title  = {Probing the primordial Universe from the low-multipole CMB data},
  author = {Cheng Cheng and Qing-Guo Huang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.0349},
  year   = {2015}
}

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5 pages, 2 tables, 2 figures