Constraints on Models with a Break in the Primordial Power Spectrum

Details Constraints on Models with a Break in the Primordial Power Spectrum Constraints on Models with a Break in the Primordial Power Spectrum

2009-03-22

arxiv.org/abs/0903.3725v2

Phys.Lett.B690:451,2010

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

5 pages, 2 figures and 1 table; reference added

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.physletb.2010.05.075

One of the characteristics of the "Matter Bounce" scenario, an alternative to cosmological inflation for producing a scale-invariant spectrum of primordial adiabatic fluctuations on large scales, is a break in the power spectrum at a characteristic scale, below which the spectral index changes from n = 1 to n = 3. We study the constraints which current cosmological data place on the location of such a break, and more generally on the position of the break and the slope at length scales smaller than the break. The observational data we use include the WMAP five-year data set (WMAP5), other CMB data from BOOMERanG, CBI, VSA, and ACBAR, large-scale structure data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS, their luminous red galaxies sample), Type Ia Supernovae data (the "Union" compilation), and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Lyman-\alpha forest power spectrum (Ly\alpha) data. We employ the Markov Chain Monte Carlo method to constrain the features in the primordial power spectrum which are motivated by the matter bounce model. We give an upper limit on the length scale where the break in the spectrum occurs.

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