TY - JOUR
T1 - Dark energy cosmology with the alternative cosmic microwave background data
AU - Wei, Hao
PY - 2011/4
Y1 - 2011/4
N2 - Recently, in a series of works by Liu and Li (L&L), they claimed that there exists a timing asynchrony of -25.6 ms between the spacecraft attitude and radiometer output timestamps in the original raw WMAP time-ordered data (TOD). L&L reprocessed the WMAP data while the aforementioned timing asynchrony has been corrected, and they obtained an alternative CMB map in which the quadrupole dropped to nearly zero. In the present work, we try to see the implications to dark energy cosmology if L&L are right. While L&L claimed that there is a bug in the WMAP pipeline which leads to significantly different cosmological parameters, an interesting question naturally arises, namely, how robust is the current dark energy cosmology with respect to systematic errors and bugs? So, in this work, we adopt the alternative CMB data of L&L as a strawman to study the robustness of dark energy predictions.
AB - Recently, in a series of works by Liu and Li (L&L), they claimed that there exists a timing asynchrony of -25.6 ms between the spacecraft attitude and radiometer output timestamps in the original raw WMAP time-ordered data (TOD). L&L reprocessed the WMAP data while the aforementioned timing asynchrony has been corrected, and they obtained an alternative CMB map in which the quadrupole dropped to nearly zero. In the present work, we try to see the implications to dark energy cosmology if L&L are right. While L&L claimed that there is a bug in the WMAP pipeline which leads to significantly different cosmological parameters, an interesting question naturally arises, namely, how robust is the current dark energy cosmology with respect to systematic errors and bugs? So, in this work, we adopt the alternative CMB data of L&L as a strawman to study the robustness of dark energy predictions.
KW - cosmological parameters from CMBR
KW - dark energy experiments
KW - dark energy theory
KW - supernova type Ia - standard candles
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79955575340&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1088/1475-7516/2011/04/022
DO - 10.1088/1475-7516/2011/04/022
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79955575340
SN - 1475-7516
VL - 2011
JO - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
JF - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
IS - 4
M1 - 022
ER -