Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2003-06-13
Phys.Rev.Lett. 91 (2003) 171301
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
4 pages, 1 figure, some minor corrections; version accepted in PRL
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.171301
We obtain very stringent bounds on the possible cold dark matter, baryon and neutrino isocurvature contributions to the primordial fluctuations in the Universe, using recent cosmic microwave background and large scale structure data. In particular, we include the measured temperature and polarization power spectra from WMAP and ACBAR, as well as the matter power spectrum from the 2dF galaxy redshift survey. Neglecting the possible effects of spatial curvature, tensor perturbations and reionization, we perform a Bayesian likelihood analysis with nine free parameters, and find that the amplitude of the isocurvature component cannot be larger than about 31% for the cold dark matter mode, 91% for the baryon mode, 76% for the neutrino density mode, and 60% for the neutrino velocity mode, at 2-sigma, for uncorrelated models. On the other hand, for correlated adiabatic and isocurvature components, the fraction could be slightly larger. However, the cross-correlation coefficient is strongly constrained, and maximally correlated/anticorrelated models are disfavored. This puts strong bounds on the curvaton model, independently of the bounds on non-Gaussianity.
Crotty Patrick
Garcia-Bellido Juan
Lesgourgues Julien
Riazuelo Alain
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