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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
卷 87, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.87.023519
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- Danish National Research Foundation
- Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Universita e della Ricerca (MIUR) through the PRIN grant Matter-antimatter asymmetry, Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the LHC era'' [2008NR3EBK-005]
- Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Universita e della Ricerca (MIUR) through the PRIN grant Galactic and extragalactic polarized microwave emission [2009XZ54H2-002]
Using the most recent data from the WMAP, ACT and SPT experiments, we update the constraints on models with oscillatory features in the primordial power spectrum of scalar perturbations. This kind of features can appear in models of inflation where slow-roll is interrupted, like multifield models. We also derive constraints for the case in which, in addition to cosmic microwave observations, we also consider the data on the spectrum of luminous red galaxies from the 7th SDSS catalog, and the SNIa Union Compilation 2 data. We have found that: (i) considering a model with features in the primordial power spectrum increases the agreement with data compared to the featureless vanilla'' Lambda CDM model by Delta chi(2) = 6: 7, representing an improvement with respect to the expected value Delta chi(2) = 3 for an equivalent model with three additional parameters; (ii) the uncertainty on the determination of the standard parameters is not degraded when features are included; (iii) the best fit for the features model locates the step in the primordial spectrum at a scale k similar or equal to 0.005 Mpc(-1), corresponding to the scale where the outliers in the WMAP7 data at l = 22 and l = 40 are located.; (iv) a distinct, albeit less statistically significant peak is present in the likelihood at smaller scales, whose presence might be related to the WMAP7 preference for a negative value of the running of the scalar spectral index parameter; (v) the inclusion of the LRG-7 data does not change significantly the best fit model, but allows to better constrain the amplitude of the oscillations. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.87.023519
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