Non-BBN Constraints on the Key Cosmological Parameters |
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Authors: | Steigman Gary Hata Naoya Felten James E |
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Institution: | (1) Departments of Physics and Astronomy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA;(2) Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, 08540;(3) Code 685, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, 20771 |
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Abstract: | Since the baryon-to-photon ratio 10 is in some doubt at present, we ignore the constraints on 10 from big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) and fit the three key cosmological parameters (h, M, 10) to four other observational constraints: Hubble parameter (ho), age of the universe (to), cluster gas (baryon) fraction (fo fGh3/2), and effective shape parameter (o). We consider open and flat CDM models and flat CDM models, testing goodness of fit and drawing confidence regions by the 2 method. CDM models with M = 1 (SCDM models) are accepted only because we allow a large error on ho, permitting h < 0.5. Open CDM models are accepted only for M 0.4. CDM models give similar results. In all of these models, large 10 ( 6) is favored strongly over small 10 ( 2), supporting reports of low deuterium abundances on some QSO lines of sight, and suggesting that observational determinations of primordial 4He may be contaminated by systematic errors. Only if we drop the crucial o constraint are much lower values of M and 10 permitted. |
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Keywords: | Baryon-to-photon ratio Universal matter density Hubble parameter |
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