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  • New constraints on the rehe...
    De Bernardis, Francesco; Pagano, Luca; Melchiorri, Alessandro

    Astroparticle physics, 11/2008, Letnik: 30, Številka: 4
    Journal Article

    We report new constraints on the reheating temperature of the universe by analyzing the recent cosmic microwave background (CMB) data from the WMAP five year survey. From WMAP-5 data alone we found an upper limit at 95% c.l. of T rh > 2 MeV, while including external priors from the SDSS red luminous galaxy survey and age constraints improves the limit to T rh > 3.2 MeV (again at 95% c.l.). Future analysis from combined CMB and weak lensing surveys as Planck and DUNE will improve the the constraints by a factor ∼2. We test the stability of the current upper limits on neutrino masses from cosmology under the hypothesis of non-standard thermal neutrino background.