A Comparison of Cosmological Parameters Determined from CMB Temperature Power Spectra from the South Pole Telescope and the Planck Satellite

• Published in: The Astrophysical Journal
• Main Authors: Aylor, K., Hou, Z., Knox, L., Story, K. T., Benson, B. A., Bleem, L. E., Carlstrom, J. E., Chang, C. L., Cho, H-M., Chown, R., Crawford, T. M., Crites, A. T., Haan, T. de, Dobbs, M. A., Everett, W. B., George, E. M., Halverson, N. W., Harrington, N. L., Holder, G. P., Holzapfel, W. L., Hrubes, J. D., Keisler, R., Lee, A. T., Leitch, E. M., Luong-Van, D., Marrone, Daniel P., McMahon, J. J., Meyer, S. S., Millea, M., Mocanu, L. M., Mohr, J. J., Natoli, T., Omori, Y., Padin, S., Pryke, C., Reichardt, C. L., Ruhl, J. E., Sayre, J. T., Schaffer, K. K., Shirokoff, E., Staniszewski, Z., Stark, A. A., Vanderlinde, K., Vieira, J. D., Williamson, R.
• Other Authors: Univ Arizona, Steward Observ
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: IOP PUBLISHING LTD 2017
• Subjects: cosmic background radiation; cosmology: observations; Canada; Hubble; Kavli; Lambda; South Pole; South pole
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/626259; https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa947b

The Planck cosmic microwave background temperature data are best fit with a Lambda CDM model that mildly contradicts constraints from other cosmological probes. The South Pole Telescope (SPT) 2540 deg(2) SPT-SZ survey offers measurements on sub-degree angular scales (multipoles 650 <= l <= 250...