Using SPT polarization, <i>Planck</i> 2015, and non-CMB data to constrain tilted spatially-flat and untilted nonflat <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mi mathvariant="normal">Λ</mml:mi><mml:mi>CDM</mml:mi></mml:math>, XCDM, and <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mi>ϕ</mml:mi><mml:mi>CDM</mml:mi></mml:math> dark energy inflation cosmologies
Chan‐Gyung Park, Bharat Ratra
Abstract
We use six tilted spatially flat and untilted nonflat dark energy cosmological models in analyses of South Pole Telescope polarization (SPTpol) cosmic microwave background (CMB) data, alone and in combination with Planck 2015 CMB data and non-CMB data, namely, the Pantheon type Ia supernovae apparent magnitudes, a collection of baryon acoustic oscillation data points, Hubble parameter measurements, and growth rates. Although the cosmological models that best fit the Planck CMB and non-CMB data do not provide good fits to the SPTpol data, with the ${\ensuremath{\chi}}^{2}$'s exceeding the expected value, given the uncertainties, in each model the cosmological parameter constraints from the SPTpol data and from the Planck CMB and non-CMB data are largely mutually consistent. When the smaller angular scale SPTpol data are used jointly with either the Planck data alone or with the Planck CMB and the non-CMB data to constrain untilted nonflat models, spatially closed models remain favored over their corresponding flat limits. When used in conjunction with Planck data, non-CMB data (baryon acoustic oscillation measurements in particular, from six experiments) have significantly more constraining power than the SPTpol data.