Extended Mosaic Observations with the Cosmic Background Imager

  • Readhead A
  • Mason B
  • Contaldi C
  • et al.
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Abstract

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, σ 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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Readhead, A. C. S., Mason, B. S., Contaldi, C. R., Pearson, T. J., Bond, J. R., Myers, S. T., … Udomprasert, P. S. (2004). Extended Mosaic Observations with the Cosmic Background Imager. The Astrophysical Journal, 609(2), 498–512. https://doi.org/10.1086/421105

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