Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-07-20
Phys.Rev.Lett.95:261303,2005
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
4 pages, 5 figs. Submitted to PRL
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.261303
The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropy constrains the geometry of the Universe because the positions of the acoustic peaks of the angular power spectrum depend strongly on the curvature of underlying three-dimensional space. In this Letter we exploit current observations to determine the spatial geometry of the Universe in the presence of isocurvature modes. Previous analyses have always assumed that the cosmological perturbations were initially adiabatic. A priori one might expect that allowing additional isocurvature modes would substantially degrade the constraints on the curvature of the Universe. We find, however, that if one considers additional data sets, the geometry remains well constrained. When the most general isocurvature perturbation is allowed, the CMB alone can only poorly constrain the geometry to Omega_0=1.6+-0.3. Including large-scale structure (LSS) data one obtains Omega_0=1.07+-0.03, and Omega_0=1.06+-0.02 when supplemented by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Key Project determination of H_0 and SNIa data.
Bucher Martin
Dunkley Joanna
Ferreira Pedro G.
Moodley Kavilan
Skordis Constantinos
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