The BOOMERanG experiment and the curvature of the Universe

Details The BOOMERanG experiment and the curvature of the Universe The BOOMERanG experiment and the curvature of the Universe

2002-01-09

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0201137v1

Prog.Part.Nucl.Phys. 48 (2002) 243-261

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Proc. of the Erice School on "Neutrinos in Astro, Particle and Nuclear Physics", 18.-26. September 2001, Amand Faessler, Jan K

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0146-6410(02)00131-X

We describe the BOOMERanG experiment and its main result, i.e. the measurement of the large scale curvature of the Universe. BOOMERanG is a balloon-borne microwave telescope with sensitive cryogenic detectors. BOOMERanG has measured the angular distribution of the Cosmic Microwave Background on $\sim 3%$ of the sky, with a resolution of $\sim 10$ arcmin and a sensitivity of $\sim 20 \mu K$ per pixel. The resulting image is dominated by hot and cold spots with rms fluctuations $\sim 80 \mu K$ and typical size of $\sim 1^o$. The detailed angular power spectrum of the image features three peaks and two dips at $\ell = (213^{+10}_{-13}), (541^{+20}_{-32}), (845^{+12}_{-25})$ and $\ell = (416^{+22}_{-12}), (750^{+20}_{-750})$, respectively. Such very characteristic spectrum can be explained assuming that the detected structures are the result of acoustic oscillations in the primeval plasma. In this framework, the measured pattern constrains the density parameter $\Omega$ to be $0.85 < \Omega < 1.1$ (95% confidence interval). Other cosmological parameters, like the spectral index of initial density fluctuations, the density parameter for baryons, dark matter and dark energy, are detected or constrained by the BOOMERanG measurements and by other recent CMB anisotropy experiments. When combined with other cosmological observations, these results depict a new, consistent, cosmological scenario.

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