Constraints from the damping tail

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2001-01-05

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0101086v2

Astrophys.J.555:88-91,2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 3 figures, matches version accepted in journal

Scientific paper

10.1086/321433

The detection of anisotropy in the cosmic microwave background on arcminute scales by the Cosmic Background Imager (CBI) provides us with our first measurement of the damping tail and closes one chapter in the CMB story. We now have experimental verification for all of the features in the temperature anisotropy spectrum predicted theoretically two decades ago. The CBI result allows us to constrain both parameterized models based on the inflationary cold dark matter (CDM) paradigm and to examine model independent constraints on the matter content, the distance to last scattering and the thickness of the last scattering surface. By providing a lower limit on the duration of recombination it implies a lower limit on the polarization of the sub-degree scale anisotropy which is close to current experimental upper limits.

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