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arxiv: 1405.0349 · v1 · pith:7BIYGB3Ynew · submitted 2014-05-02 · 🌌 astro-ph.CO · gr-qc· hep-ph· hep-th

Probing the primordial Universe from the low-multipole CMB data

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keywords datalow-multipoleprobescalesbackgroundcosmicperturbationspower
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Since the temperature fluctuations in cosmic microwave background (CMB) on large-angular scales probe length scales that were super-horizon sized at photon decoupling and hence insensitive to microphysical processes, the low-multipole CMB data are supposed to be a good probe to the physics of the primordial Universe. In this letter we will constrain the cosmological parameters in the base $\Lambda$CDM model with tensor perturbations by only using low-multipole CMB data, including Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization (B2), Planck released in 2013 (P13) and Wilkinson Microwaves Anisotropy Probe 9-year data (W9). We find that a red tilted power spectrum of relic gravitational waves is compatible with the data, but a blue tilted power spectrum of scalar perturbations on the large scales is preferred at around $2\sigma$ confidence level.

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