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  • A MEASUREMENT OF THE COSMIC...
    Story, K T; Reichardt, C L; Hou, Z; Keisler, R; Aird, K A; Benson, B A; Bleem, L E; Carlstrom, J E; Chang, C L; Cho, H-M

    The Astrophysical journal, 12/2013, Letnik: 779, Številka: 1
    Journal Article

    We present a measurement of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature power spectrum using data from the recently completed South Pole Telescope Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SPT-SZ) survey. We report CMB temperature anisotropy power over the multipole range 650 < l < 3000. We fit the SPT bandpowers, combined with the 7 yr Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP7) data, with a six-parameter ACDM cosmological model and find that the two datasets are consistent and well fit by the model. Adding SPT measurements significantly improves ACDM parameter constraints; in particular, the constraint on theta sub(s) tightens by a factor of 2.7. The impact of gravitational lensing is detected at 8.1sigma, the most significant detection to date. These new constraints on n sub(s) and r have significant implications for our understanding of inflation, which we discuss in the context of selected single-field inflation models.