The Lyman-alpha forest and WMAP year three

Details The Lyman-alpha forest and WMAP year three The Lyman-alpha forest and WMAP year three

2006-04-13

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0604310v2

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.370:L51-L55,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, 4 figs, 2 tables. MNRAS letters in press

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1745-3933.2006.00187.x

A combined analysis of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and Lyman-a forest data allows to constrain the matter power spectrum from small scales of about 1 Mpc/h all the way to the horizon scale. The long lever arm and complementarity provided by such an analysis has previously led to a significant tightening of the constraints on the shape and the amplitude of the power spectrum of primordial density fluctuations. We present here a combined analysis of the WMAP three year results with Lyman-a forest data. The amplitude of the matter power spectrum sigma_8 and the spectral index ns inferred from the joint analysis with high resolution Lyman-a forest data and low resolution Lyman-a forest data as analyzed by Viel & Haehnelt (2006) are consistent with the new WMAP results to within 1 sigma. The joint analysis with the mainly low resolution data as analysed by McDonald et al. (2005) suggests a value of sigma_8 which is ~ 2 sigma higher than that inferred from the WMAP three year data alone. The joint analysis of the three year WMAP and the Lyman-a forest data also does not favour a running of the spectral index. The best fit values for a combined analysis of the three year WMAP data, other CMB data, 2dF and the Lyman-a forest data are (sigma_8, ns) = (0.78\pm 0.03,0.96 \pm 0.01).

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