Seven-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Cosmological interpretation

• Main Authors: Komatsu, Eiichiro, Smith, K. M., Dunkley, J., Bennett, C. L., Gold, B., Hinshaw, G., Jarosik, N., Larson, D., Nolta, M. R., Page, L., Spergel, D. N., Halpern, M., Hill, R. S., Kogut, A., Limon, M., Meyer, S. S., Odegard, N., Tucker, G. S., Weiland, J. L., Wollack, E., Wright, E. L.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: cosmic background radiation; cosmology: observations; dark matter; early; universe; space vehicles; digital sky survey; primordial non-gaussianity; cosmic; background-radiation; relaxed galaxy clusters; equation-of-state; dark-matter halo; isothermal density perturbations; inflationary; universe scenario; gravitational lensing systems; galactic foreground; emission; astronomy & astrophysics; South Pole; Lambda; Wilkinson; Hubble; South pole
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2152/42996; https://doi.org/10.15781/T28P5VC51; https://doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/192/2/18

The combination of seven-year data from WMAP and improved astrophysical data rigorously tests the standard cosmological model and places new constraints on its basic parameters and extensions. By combining the WMAP data with the latest distance measurements from the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO...