"Three-year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP)
observations: Implications for cosmology," by
D.N. Spergel and 21 others, Astrophysical Journal Supplement
Series, 170(2): 377-408, June 2007.
From the Abstract: "A simple cosmological model with only
six parameters (matter density, Omega(m)h(2), baryon density, Omega(b)h(2),
Hubble constant, H-0, amplitude of fluctuations, sigma(8), optical depth,
tau, and a slope for the scalar perturbation spectrum, n(s)) fits not only
the 3 year WMAP temperature and polarization data, but also small-scale CMB
data, light element abundances, large-scale structure observations, and the
supernova luminosity/distance relationship. Using WMAP data only, the
best-fit values for cosmological parameters for the power-law flat Lambda
cold dark matter (Lambda CDM) model are (Omega(m)h(2), Omega(b)h(2), h,
n(s), tau, sigma(s)) = (0.1277(-0.0079)(+0.0080),
0.02229 +/- 0.00073, 0.732(-0.032)(+0.031), 0.958 +/- 0.016,0.089 +/-
0.030, 0.761(-0.048)(+0.049)). The 3 year data dramatically shrink the
allowed volume in this six-dimensional parameter space. Assuming that the
primordial fluctuations are adiabatic with a power-law spectrum, the WMAP
data alone require dark matter and favor a spectral index that is
significantly less than the Harrison-Zel'dovich-Peebles scale-invariant
spectrum ( n(s) = 1, r = 0). Adding additional data sets improves the
constraints on these components and the spectral slope.....For a flat
universe, the combination of WMAP and other astronomical data yield a
constraint on the sum of the neutrino masses, Sigma m(nu) < 0.66 eV
(95%CL). Consistent with the predictions of simple inflationary theories,
we detect no significant deviations from Gaussianity in the CMB maps using
Minkowski functionals, the bispectrum, trispectrum, and a new statistic
designed to detect large-scale anisotropies in the fluctuations."
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