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		<title>By: South Pole Telescope bevestigt het bestaan van donkere energie &#124; Astroblogs</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2012/11/05/south-pole-telescope-and-cmb-constraints/#comment-79323</link>
		<dc:creator>South Pole Telescope bevestigt het bestaan van donkere energie &#124; Astroblogs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 21:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] van de Planck-satelliet, de opvolger van WMAP, welke in 2013 zullen verschijnen.  Bron: Cosmic Variance + Francis the [...] </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] van de Planck-satelliet, de opvolger van WMAP, welke in 2013 zullen verschijnen.  Bron: Cosmic Variance + Francis the [...] </p>
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		<title>By: TomC</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2012/11/05/south-pole-telescope-and-cmb-constraints/#comment-79322</link>
		<dc:creator>TomC</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 15:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>clamtrox -

Running of the spectral index is going to be discussed in the companion/follow-up paper (Hou et al.), too.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>clamtrox -</p>
<p>Running of the spectral index is going to be discussed in the companion/follow-up paper (Hou et al.), too.</p>
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		<title>By: AI</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2012/11/05/south-pole-telescope-and-cmb-constraints/#comment-79321</link>
		<dc:creator>AI</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 13:20:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks for the link chris.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for the link chris.</p>
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		<title>By: El Telescopio del Polo Sur (SPT) confirma con 5,4 sigmas la existencia de la energía oscura &#171; Francis (th)E mule Science&#039;s News</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2012/11/05/south-pole-telescope-and-cmb-constraints/#comment-79320</link>
		<dc:creator>El Telescopio del Polo Sur (SPT) confirma con 5,4 sigmas la existencia de la energía oscura &#171; Francis (th)E mule Science&#039;s News</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 13:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] ¿Qué nos deparará el fondo cósmico de microondas (CMB) observado por el satélite Planck de la ESA? Por ahora, nos tenemos que conformar con los resultados de SPT (South Pole Telescope) que ha estudiado los picos acústicos del CMB entre 650 &lt; l &lt; 3000 (mucho más allá de WMAP7). La combinación WMAP7 + SPT muestra la existencia de la energía oscura con 5,4 sigmas de confianza estadística. Además, se confirma el modelo ΛCDM y se restringen fuertemente sus posibles extensiones. El efecto de lente gravitatoria del CMB se confirma a 8,1 sigmas con una amplitud de 0,86 ± 0,30 al 95% C.L., consistente con el modelo ΛCDM. El universo es plano con una curvatura media de 0,003 ± 0,018. El cociente entre perturbaciones tensoriales y escalares medido por WMAP7+SPT es r &lt; 0,18 al 95% C.L. (recuerda que Planck llegará a r &lt; 0,01 y que r=0 significa que no hay fondo cósmico de ondas gravitatorias). En mi opinión, lo más interesante se muestra en la figura que abre esta entrada; la línea discontinua es la predicción para el CMB y la línea continua añade las contribuciones del efecto Sunyaev-Zel’dovich (SZ) debido a la interacción del CMB con las grandes estructuras del universo; el acuerdo es espectacular (de hecho, para la región 2200 &lt; l &lt; 3000 se cree que la precisión de SPT será mayor que la de Planck). Una demostración más de que el modelo ΛCDM funciona mucho mejor de lo esperado. El artículo técnico es K. T. Story et al., &#8220;A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Damping Tail from the 2500-square-degree SPT-SZ survey,&#8221; arXiv:1210.7231, Subm. 26 Oct 2012. Recomiendo leer a Sean Carroll, &#8220;South Pole Telescope and CMB Constraints,&#8221; Cosmic Variance, 5 Nov 2012. [...] </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] ¿Qué nos deparará el fondo cósmico de microondas (CMB) observado por el satélite Planck de la ESA? Por ahora, nos tenemos que conformar con los resultados de SPT (South Pole Telescope) que ha estudiado los picos acústicos del CMB entre 650 &lt; l &lt; 3000 (mucho más allá de WMAP7). La combinación WMAP7 + SPT muestra la existencia de la energía oscura con 5,4 sigmas de confianza estadística. Además, se confirma el modelo ΛCDM y se restringen fuertemente sus posibles extensiones. El efecto de lente gravitatoria del CMB se confirma a 8,1 sigmas con una amplitud de 0,86 ± 0,30 al 95% C.L., consistente con el modelo ΛCDM. El universo es plano con una curvatura media de 0,003 ± 0,018. El cociente entre perturbaciones tensoriales y escalares medido por WMAP7+SPT es r &lt; 0,18 al 95% C.L. (recuerda que Planck llegará a r &lt; 0,01 y que r=0 significa que no hay fondo cósmico de ondas gravitatorias). En mi opinión, lo más interesante se muestra en la figura que abre esta entrada; la línea discontinua es la predicción para el CMB y la línea continua añade las contribuciones del efecto Sunyaev-Zel’dovich (SZ) debido a la interacción del CMB con las grandes estructuras del universo; el acuerdo es espectacular (de hecho, para la región 2200 &lt; l &lt; 3000 se cree que la precisión de SPT será mayor que la de Planck). Una demostración más de que el modelo ΛCDM funciona mucho mejor de lo esperado. El artículo técnico es K. T. Story et al., &#8220;A Measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background Damping Tail from the 2500-square-degree SPT-SZ survey,&#8221; arXiv:1210.7231, Subm. 26 Oct 2012. Recomiendo leer a Sean Carroll, &#8220;South Pole Telescope and CMB Constraints,&#8221; Cosmic Variance, 5 Nov 2012. [...] </p>
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		<title>By: Bee</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2012/11/05/south-pole-telescope-and-cmb-constraints/#comment-79319</link>
		<dc:creator>Bee</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 12:44:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Anything about the polarization yet?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Anything about the polarization yet?</p>
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		<title>By: clamtrox</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2012/11/05/south-pole-telescope-and-cmb-constraints/#comment-79318</link>
		<dc:creator>clamtrox</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 09:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Looking at the best-fit values for the spectral index for WMAP (low l) and SPT (high l), it seems a running spectral index might be preferred. Does anybody know why it hasn&#039;t been considered in the paper?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Looking at the best-fit values for the spectral index for WMAP (low l) and SPT (high l), it seems a running spectral index might be preferred. Does anybody know why it hasn&#8217;t been considered in the paper?</p>
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		<title>By: Shantanu</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2012/11/05/south-pole-telescope-and-cmb-constraints/#comment-79317</link>
		<dc:creator>Shantanu</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 21:55:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Riemannium, see
this talk
http://pirsa.org/12050002/
which sort of addresses your question</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Riemannium, see<br />
this talk<br />
<a href="http://pirsa.org/12050002/" rel="nofollow">http://pirsa.org/12050002/</a><br />
which sort of addresses your question</p>
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		<title>By: chris</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2012/11/05/south-pole-telescope-and-cmb-constraints/#comment-79316</link>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 11:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi AI,

try out this site, it is excellent for what you want to know:

http://background.uchicago.edu/~whu/intermediate/intermediate.html</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi AI,</p>
<p>try out this site, it is excellent for what you want to know:</p>
<p><a href="http://background.uchicago.edu/~whu/intermediate/intermediate.html" rel="nofollow">http://background.uchicago.edu/~whu/intermediate/intermediate.html</a></p>
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		<title>By: AI</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2012/11/05/south-pole-telescope-and-cmb-constraints/#comment-79315</link>
		<dc:creator>AI</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 10:56:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yes, the wiggles look very interesting and the agreement with theory is very impressive but could you perhaps explain to us non-experts why they have the shape they do?

For example where does the distance between the peaks come from? Why are the 2nd and 3rd the same height but less then the 1st and more then the 4th? Surely if as you say the lines represent theoretical predictions all the answers to those questions have to be known. Even if the details are too technical it would be nice to just get a general idea.

I also find such observations more interesting then detection of the particle-compatible-with-being-Higgs.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes, the wiggles look very interesting and the agreement with theory is very impressive but could you perhaps explain to us non-experts why they have the shape they do?</p>
<p>For example where does the distance between the peaks come from? Why are the 2nd and 3rd the same height but less then the 1st and more then the 4th? Surely if as you say the lines represent theoretical predictions all the answers to those questions have to be known. Even if the details are too technical it would be nice to just get a general idea.</p>
<p>I also find such observations more interesting then detection of the particle-compatible-with-being-Higgs.</p>
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		<title>By: Richard E.</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2012/11/05/south-pole-telescope-and-cmb-constraints/#comment-79314</link>
		<dc:creator>Richard E.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 10:42:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I would be interested to see an n_s v alpha_s plot, too.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I would be interested to see an n_s v alpha_s plot, too.</p>
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