Analysis of Small and Medium-Scale Cosmic Microwave Background Experiments

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1994-10-26

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9410081v1

Phys.Rev.Lett. 75 (1995) 604-607

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

10 pages plus 3 figures, 108 Kb as uuencoded compressed postscript (tex file or old-fashioned copies available from akosowsky@

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.75.604

Anisotropies in the temperature of the cosmic microwave background have been detected on a range of scales by several different experiments. These anisotropies reflect the primordial spectrum of metric perturbations in the early universe. In principle, the largest barrier to a clean interpretation of the experimental results is contamination by foreground sources. We address this issue by projecting out likely sources of foreground contamination {}from seven separate small-angle and medium-angle experiments. We then calculate likelihood functions for models with adiabatic perturbations, first for the amplitude of the spectrum while constraining the spectral index to be $n=1$, and then jointly for the amplitude and spectrum of the fluctuations. All of the experiments are so far consistent with the simplest inflationary models; for $n=1$ the experiments' combined best-fit quadrupole amplitude is $Q_{\rm rms-ps}= 18^{+3}_{-1} \,\,\mu K$, in excellent agreement with the COBE two-year data. In ($Q_{\rm rms-ps}$, n) space, the allowed region incorporating intermediate and small-scale experiments is substantially more constrained than {}from COBE alone. We briefly discuss the expected improvement in the data in the near future and corresponding constraints on cosmological models.

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