A search for super-imposed oscillations to the primordial power spectrum in Planck and SPT-3G 2018 data ...

• Main Authors: Antony, Akhil, Finelli, Fabio, Hazra, Dhiraj Kumar, Paoletti, Daniela, Shafieloo, Arman
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: arXiv 2024
• Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics astro-ph.CO; High Energy Physics - Phenomenology hep-ph; High Energy Physics - Theory hep-th; FOS Physical sciences; South pole
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2403.19575; https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19575

We search for super-imposed oscillations linearly or logarithmically spaced in Fourier wavenumbers in Planck and South Pole Telescope (SPT-3G) 2018 temperature and polarization data. The SPT-3G temperature and polarization data provide a new window to test these oscillations at high multipoles beyond the Planck angular resolution and sensitivity. We consider both models with a constant and a Gaussian modulated amplitude, which correspond to three and four additional parameters beyond power-law primordial power spectrum for the templates considered, respectively. We find that each of the four models considered can provide an improved fit to Planck data, consistently with previous findings, and to SPT-3G data, always compared to $Λ$CDM. For a constant amplitude of the superimposed oscillations, we find tighter constraints on the amplitude of the oscillations from the combined Planck/SPT-3G data set than in each individual data sets. When the ranges of parameters which provide a better fit to Planck and SPT-3G ... : 10 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables ...