On breaking cosmic degeneracy

被引:26
作者
Metcalf, RB
Silk, J
机构
[1] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Phys & Astron, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[2] Univ Calif Berkeley, Ctr Particle Astrophys, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
基金
美国国家航空航天局;
关键词
cosmic microwave background; cosmology; theory; dark matter; gravitational lensing; large-scale structure of universe;
D O I
10.1086/311080
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
It has been argued that the power spectrum of the anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background may be effectively degenerate, namely, that the observable spectrum does not determine a unique set of cosmological parameters. We describe the physical origin of this degeneracy and show that at small angular scales it is broken by gravitational lensing: effectively degenerate spectra become distinguishable at I similar to 3000 because lensing causes their damping tails to fall at different rates with increasing l. This effect also helps in distinguishing nearly degenerate power spectra such as those of mixed dark matter models. Forthcoming interferometer experiments should provide the means of measuring otherwise degenerate parameters at the 5%-25% level.
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