期刊
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
卷 -, 期 4, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2017/04/023
关键词
cosmological parameters from CMBR; cosmological parameters from LSS
资金
- Spanish MINECO of ICCUB (Unidad de Excelencia Maria de Maeztu) [AYA2014-58747-P, MDM-2014-0369]
- Royal Society grant [IE140357]
- CNPq (Brazil)
- Imperial College through the CosmoCLASSIC collaboration
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/N000838/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- STFC [ST/N000838/1] Funding Source: UKRI
We investigate our knowledge of early universe cosmology by exploring how much additional energy density can be placed in different components beyond those in the Lambda CDM model. To do this we use a method to separate early- and late-universe information enclosed in observational data, thus markedly reducing the model-dependency of the conclusions. We find that the 95% credibility regions for extra energy components of the early universe at recombination are: non-accelerating additional fluid density parameter Omega(MR) < 0.006 and extra radiation parameterised as extra effective neutrino species 2.3 < N-eff < 3.2 when imposing flatness. Our constraints thus show that even when analyzing the data in this largely model-independent way, the possibility of hiding extra energy components beyond Lambda CDM in the early universe is seriously constrained by current observations. We also find that the standard ruler, the sound horizon at radiation drag, can be well determined in a way that does not depend on late-time Universe assumptions, but depends strongly on early- time physics and in particular on additional components that behave like radiation. We find that the standard ruler length determined in this way is r(s) = 147.4 +/- 0.7 Mpc if the radiation and neutrino components are standard, but the uncertainty increases by an order of magnitude when non-standard dark radiation components are allowed, to r(s) = 150 +/- 5Mpc.
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