Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2009-11-26
Phys.Rev.D81:083010,2010
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
6 pages, 3 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.81.083010
As a test of the standard inflationary cosmology, which generically predicts nearly scale-invariant spectrum of primordial curvature fluctuations, we perform Markov-Chain Monte-Carlo analysis to search for possible modulations in the power spectrum and determine its shape together with the cosmological parameters using cosmic microwave background radiation data. By incorporating various three-parameter features on the simple power-law spectrum, we find an oscillatory modulation localized around the comoving wavenumber $k\simeq 0.009\mathrm{Mpc}^{-1}$ at 99.995% confidence level which improves the log-likelihood as much as $-\Delta 2\ln {\cal L}\equiv \Delta \chi^2_{\rm eff}=-22$. This feature can be detected even if we use only the cross correlation between the temperature and the E-mode polarization anisotropies.
Ichiki Kiyotomo
Nagata Ryo
Yokoyama Jun'ichi
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