Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2000-12-22
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
10 pages, 4 figures, invited talk, to appear in the proceedings of the IAU Symposium 201, 'New Cosmological Data and the Value
Scientific paper
We compare and combine likelihood functions of the cosmological parameters Omega_m, h and sigma_8 from the CMB, type Ia supernovae and from probes of large scale structure. We include the recent results from the CMB experiments BOOMERANG and MAXIMA-1. Our analysis assumes a flat LambdaCDM cosmology with a scale-invariant adiabatic initial power spectrum. First we consider three data sets that directly probe the mass in the Universe, without the need to relate the galaxy distribution to the underlying mass via a `biasing' relation: peculiar velocities, CMB and supernovae. We assume a baryonic fraction as inferred from Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis and find that all three data sets agree well, overlapping significantly at the 2-sigma level. This therefore justifies a joint analysis, in which we find a joint best fit point and 95% confidence limits of Omega_m=0.28 (0.17,0.39), h=0.74 (0.64,0.86), and sigma_8=1.17 (0.98,1.37). Secondly we extend our earlier work on combining CMB, supernovae, cluster number counts, IRAS galaxy redshift survey data to include BOOMERANG and MAXIMA-1 data and to allow a free Omega_b h^2. We find that, given our assumption of a scale invariant initial power spectrum (n=1), we obtain the robust result of Omega_b h^2= 0.031 +/- 0.03, which is dominated by the CMB constraint.
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