Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2000-10-27
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 324 (2001) 712
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
5 pages, 5 figures, updated references
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04372.x
With the recent publication of the measurements of the radiation angular power spectrum from the BOOMERanG Antarctic flight (de Bernardis et al. 2000), it has become apparent that the currently favoured spatially-flat cold dark matter model (matter density parameter $\Omega_{\rm m}=0.3$, flatness being restored by a cosmological constant $\Omega_{\Lambda}=0.7$, Hubble parameter $h=0.65$, baryon density parameter $\Omega_{\rm b}h^2=0.02$) no longer provides a good fit to the data. We describe a phenomenological approach to resurrecting this paradigm. We consider a primordial power spectrum which incorporates a bump, arbitrarily placed at $k_{\rm b}$, and characterized by a Gaussian in log $k$ of standard deviation $\sigma_{\rm b}$ and amplitude ${\rm A}_{\rm b}$, that is superimposed onto a scale-invariant power spectrum. We generate a range of theoretical models that include a bump at scales consistent with cosmic microwave background and large-scale structure observations, and perform a simple $\chi^2$ test to compare our models with the $COBE$ DMR data and the recently published BOOMERanG and MAXIMA data. Unlike models that include a high baryon content, our models predict a low third acoustic peak. We find that low $\ell$ observations (20 $< \ell <$ 200) are a critical discriminant of the bumps because the transfer function has a sharp cutoff on the high $\ell$ side of the first acoustic peak...
Griffiths Louise M.
Silk Joseph
Zaroubi Saleem
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