Cosmology in the Next Millennium: Combining MAP and SDSS Data to Constrain Inflationary Models

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1998-02-17

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9802231v2

Astrophys.J.510:20,1999

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Substantial revisions to quantitative results as a result of more accurate calculation of derivatives; these new numerical res

Scientific paper

10.1086/306558

The basic cosmological parameters and the primordial power spectrum together completely specify predictions for the cosmic microwave background radiation anisotropy and large scale structure. Here we show how we can strongly constrain both $A_S^2(k)$ and the cosmological parameters by combining the data from the Microwave Anisotropy Probe (MAP) and the galaxy redshift survey from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We allow $A_S^2(k)$ to be a free function, and thus probe features in the primordial power spectrum on all scales. The primordial power spectrum in 20 steps in $\log k$ to $k\leq 0.5h$Mpc$^{-1}$ can be determined to $\sim 16%$ accuracy for $k\sim 0.01h$Mpc$^{-1}$, and to $\sim 1%$ accuracy for $k\sim 0.1h$Mpc$^{-1}$. The uncertainty in the primordial power spectrum increases by a factor up to 3 on small scales if we solve simultaneously for the dimensionless Hubble constant $h$, the cosmological constant ${\Lambda}$, the baryon fraction $\Omega_b$, the reionization optical depth $\tau_{ri}$, and the effective bias between the matter density field and the redshift space galaxy density field $b_{\it eff}$. Alternately, if we restrict $A_S^2(k)$ to be a power law, we find that inclusion of the SDSS data breaks the degeneracy between the amplitude of the power spectrum and the optical depth inherent in the MAP data, significantly reduces the uncertainties in the determination of the matter density and the cosmological constant, and allows a determination of the galaxy bias parameter. Thus, combining the MAP and SDSS data allows the independent measurement of important cosmological parameters, and a measurement of the primordial power spectrum independent of inflationary models, giving us valuable information on physics in the early Universe, and providing clues to the correct inflationary model.

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