Constraining Isocurvature Fluctuations with the Planck Surveyor

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1999-07-16

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9907221v1

Phys.Rev.D61:043002,2000

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

6 pages, 4 figures, revtex

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.61.043002

We consider the detection possibilities of isocurvature fluctuations in the future CMB satellite experiments MAP and Planck for different cosmological reference models. We present a simultaneous 10 parameter fit (8 for the case of open model) to determine the correlations between the cosmological parameters, including isocurvature cold dark matter contribution to the anisotropy. Assuming that polarization information can be fully exploited, we find that an isocurvature perturbation can be detected by the Planck Surveyor if the ratio of the initial isocurvature and adiabatic perturbation amplitude is larger than 0.07. In the absence of polarization data, the signal from isocurvature perturbations can be confused with tensor perturbations or early reionization effects, and the limit is larger by almost an order of magnitude.

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