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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS
Volume 749, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/749/1/L9
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cosmic background radiation; dark energy; early universe
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- NSF [ANT-0638937, ANT-0130612]
- DOE
- NASA
- [FP7-IDEAS-Phys.LSS 240117]
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We present new limits on early dark energy (EDE) from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) using data from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) satellite on large angular scales and South Pole Telescope on small angular scales. We find a strong upper limit on the EDE density of Omega(e) < 0.018 at 95% confidence, a factor of three improvement over WMAP data alone. We show that adding lower-redshift probes of the expansion rate to the CMB data improves constraints on the dark energy equation of state, but not the EDE density. We also explain how small-scale CMB temperature anisotropy constrains EDE.
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