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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 78, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.78.087302
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- Center for Computational Research at the University at Buffalo
- National Science Foundation [NSF-PHY-0456777]
- Department of Energy
- European Community's Research Training Networks [MRTN-CT-2004-503369, MRTN-CT-2006-035505]
- ASI [I/016/07/0]
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In this addendum to Phys. Rev. D 74, 023502 (2006), we present an update of cosmological constraints on single-field inflation in light of the Wilkinson Microwave Ansiotropy Probe satellite mission five-year results (WMAP5). We find that the cosmic microwave background data are quite consistent with a Harrison-Zel'dovich primordial spectrum with no running and zero tensor amplitude. We find that the three main conclusions of our analysis of the WMAP three-year data (WMAP3) are consistent with the WMAP5 data: (1) the Harrison-Zel'dovich model is within the 95% confidence level contours; (2) there is no evidence for running of the spectral index of scalar perturbations; (3) from the WMAP 5 data alone, potentials of the form V proportional to phi(p) are consistent with the data for p=2 and are ruled out for p=4. Furthermore, consistent with our WMAP3 analysis, we find no evidence for primordial tensor perturbations, this time with a 95% confidence upper limit of r < 0.4 for the WMAP5 data alone, and r < 0.35 for the WMAP5 data taken in combination with the Arcminute Cosmology Bolometer Array (ACBAR).
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