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We use Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO) cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy data to constrain cosmological parameters. We account for the OVRO beamwidth and calibration uncertainties, as well as the uncertainty induced by the…

We discuss the cosmological degeneracy between the Hubble parameter H(z), the age of the universe and cosmological parameters describing simple variations from the minimal LCDM model. We show that independent determinations of the Hubble…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Daniel G. Figueroa , Licia Verde , Raul Jimenez

Cosmic shear measurements have now improved to the point where they deserve to be treated on par with CMB and galaxy clustering data for cosmological parameter analysis, using the full measured aperture mass variance curve rather than a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-07 Xiaomin Wang , Max Tegmark , Bhuvnesh Jain , Matias Zaldarriaga

We present a method for calculating large numbers of power spectra C_l and P(k) that accelerates CMBfast by a factor around 10^3 without appreciable loss of accuracy, then apply it to constrain 11 cosmological parameters from current Cosmic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-07 Max Tegmark , Matias Zaldarriaga , Andrew J. S. Hamilton

We present a maximum likelihood analysis of cosmological parameters from measurements of the aperture mass up to 35 arcmin, using simulated and real cosmic shear data. A four-dimensional parameter space is explored which examines the mean…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Van Waerbeke , Y. Mellier , R. Pello , U-L. Pen , H. J. McCracken , B. Jain

Constraints on the main cosmological parameters using CMB or large scale structure data are usually based on power-law assumption of the primordial power spectrum (PPS). However, in the absence of a preferred model for the early universe,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-14 Dhiraj Kumar Hazra , Arman Shafieloo , Tarun Souradeep

We present the results of analysis of constraints on cosmological parameters from cosmic microwave background (CMB) alone and in combination with galaxy cluster baryon fraction assuming inflation--generated adiabatic scalar fluctuations.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 M. Douspis , A. Blanchard , R. Sadat , J. G. Bartlett , M. Le Dour

WMAP precision data enables accurate testing of cosmological models. We find that the emerging standard model of cosmology, a flat Lambda-dominated universe seeded by nearly scale-invariant adiabatic Gaussian fluctuations, fits the WMAP…

The discussion of cosmological parameters used to be a source of embarrassment to cosmologists. Today, measurements of the cosmological parameters are leading the way into the era of precision cosmology. The CMB temperature is measured to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Michael S. Turner

We use a combination of the most recent cosmic microwave background (CMB) flat -band power measurements to place constraints on Hubble's constant h and the total density of the Universe Omega_o in the context of inflation-based cold dark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Charles H. Lineweaver , Domingos Barbosa

The CMB is already one of the pillars of the Big Bang model. However it may also become our most powerful tool to distinguish contending models and to determine their cosmological parameters. To realize this goal, more than 20 observational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Charles H. Lineweaver

We measure cosmological parameters using the three-dimensional power spectrum P(k) from over 200,000 galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) in combination with WMAP and other data. Our results are consistent with a ``vanilla'' flat…

I discuss the Hubble parameter $H_0$, the age of the universe $t_0$, the density $\Omega_0$, and the cosmological constant $\Lambda$. To focus the discussion, I concentrate on the issue of the value of the density $\Omega_0$ in currently…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Joel R. Primack

Current observational bounds on dark energy depend on assumptions about the curvature of the universe. We present a simple and efficient method for incorporating constraints from CMB anisotropy data, and use it to derive constraints on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Yun Wang , Pia Mukherjee

We perform a detailed analysis of the latest CMB measurements (including BOOMERaNG, DASI, Maxima and CBI), both alone and jointly with other cosmological data sets involving, e.g., galaxy clustering and the Lyman Alpha Forest. We first…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Xiaomin Wang , Max Tegmark , Matias Zaldarriaga

In this paper, we combine the latest observational data, including the WMAP five-year data (WMAP5), BOOMERanG, CBI, VSA, ACBAR, as well as the Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) and Type Ia Supernoave (SN) "Union" compilation (307 sample)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jun-Qing Xia , Hong Li , Gong-Bo Zhao , Xinmin Zhang

We use joint likelihood analyses of combinations of fifteen cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy data sets from the DMR, UCSB South Pole 1994, Python I--III, ARGO, MAX 4 and 5, White Dish, OVRO, and SuZIE experiments to constrain…

The measurement of cosmological parameters is investigated in a representation of the least-action method that uses a redshift-space dataset to simultaneously constrain the real-space fields $\delta$,$\b v$. This method is robust in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Mikel Susperregi

The past, present and future of cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy research is discussed, with emphasis on the Boomerang and Maxima balloon experiments. These data are combined with large scale structure (LSS) information and high…