Extended mosaic observations with the Cosmic Background Imager

被引:307
作者
Readhead, ACS [1 ]
Mason, BS
Contaldi, CR
Pearson, TJ
Bond, RJ
Myers, ST
Padin, S
Sievers, JL
Cartwright, JK
Shepherd, MC
Pogosyan, D
Prunet, S
Altamirano, P
Bustos, R
Bronfman, L
Casassus, S
Holzapfel, L
May, J
Pen, UL
Torres, S
Udomprasert, PS
机构
[1] CALTECH, Owens Valley Radio Observ, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[2] Natl Radio Astron Observ, Green Bank, WV 24944 USA
[3] Univ Toronto, Canadian Inst Theoret Astrophys, Toronto, ON M5S 3H8, Canada
[4] Natl Radio Astron Observ, Socorro, NM 87801 USA
[5] Univ Alberta, Dept Phys, Edmonton, AB T6G 2J1, Canada
[6] Inst Astrophys Paris, F-75014 Paris, France
[7] Univ Chile, Dept Astron, Santiago, Chile
[8] Univ Concepcion, Dept Ingn Elect, Concepcion, Chile
[9] Univ Calif Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
关键词
cosmic microwave background; cosmological parameters; cosmology : observations;
D O I
10.1086/421105
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
Two years of microwave background observations with the Cosmic Background Imager ( CBI) have been combined to give a sensitive, high-resolution angular power spectrum over the range 400 < l < 3500. This power spectrum has been referenced to a more accurate overall calibration derived from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP). The data cover 90 deg(2), including three pointings targeted for deep observations. The uncertainty on the l > 2000 power previously seen with the CBI is reduced. Under the assumption that any signal in excess of the primary anisotropy is due to a secondary Sunyaev-Zeldovich anisotropy in distant galaxy clusters, we use CBI, Arcminute Cosmology Bolometer Array Receiver, and Berkeley-Illinois-Maryland Association array data to place a constraint on the present-day rms mass fluctuation on 8 h(-1) Mpc scales, sigma(8). We present the results of a cosmological parameter analysis on the l < 2000 primary anisotropy data that show significant improvements in the parameters as compared to WMAP alone, and we explore the role of the small-scale cosmic microwave background data in breaking parameter degeneracies.
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页码:498 / 512
页数:15
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