Planck 2018 Results. VI. Cosmological Parameters

Planck Collaboration (N. Aghanim et al.) · Astronomy & Astrophysics / arXiv · 2020 · astronomy · 10.1051/0004-6361/201833910 · record planck2018-cosmology
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standard-deviation 3 fields · statistical-power 2 fields · confidence-interval 2 fields · confidence intervals 2 fields · statistical-significance 2 fields · polarization 2 fields · and 1 more →

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cosmic microwave background cosmological parameters Lambda-CDM model dark energy fiducial model baryon acoustic oscillation base-ΛCDM covariance matrices polarization efficiencies Hubble constant modified gravity conservative BBN prior pivot scale THE MODEL EVERY NUMBER IN THE PAPER IS QUOTED AGAINST IS INTRODUCED AS A QUOTED LABEL, WITH A PARAMETER COUNT AND A SCOPE: Quotation withheld The scare quotes and the words `in this paper` are both the collaboration's: the label is declared local to the document, and what it denotes is fixed by a count of parameters rather than by a description WHICH PARAMETERS ARE PRIMITIVE IS STATED AS A CHOICE, NOT AS A FACT ABOUT THE UNIVERSE: the first six parameters are THE ONES ON WHICH WE IMPOSE FLAT PRIORS AND USE AS SAMPLING PARAMETERS; the remaining parameters ARE DERIVED FROM THE FIRST SIX. The same physics could be parameterised the other way round, and the paper says which way it chose AN ENTIRE CLASS OF PARAMETERS IS NAMED “nuisance” IN SCARE QUOTES - AND THE QUOTES COME OFF IN THE NEXT SENTENCE, WHERE THEY ARE SAMPLED ON THE SAME FOOTING AS THE COSMOLOGICAL ONES: a physically motivated parametric model containing “nuisance” parameters; these nuisance parameters ARE SAMPLED, ALONG WITH COSMOLOGICAL PARAMETERS, during MCMC exploration of the likelihood. The hedge is dropped one sentence after it is made, and the objects it hedged about are treated as first-class A CEILING ON THE PAPER'S OWN INTERPRETATION, STATED BY THE PAPER: a total systematic uncertainty of around half a sigma MAY BE MORE REALISTIC, and VALUES SHOULD NOT BE OVERINTERPRETED BEYOND THIS LEVEL. Not a limitation of the data but an instruction to the reader about how far the numbers may be read - issued by the people who produced them TWO WAYS OF DOING ONE CORRECTION ARE NAMED IN A SINGLE SENTENCE, BY CONTRAST WITH EACH OTHER: adopting the estimates from one spectrum for both (we call this the “map-based” APPROACH); or applying independent estimates from each (the “spectrum-based” APPROACH). Neither name would mean anything without the other; the pair is defined by the difference between two procedures THE NULL EXPLANATION IS DECLARED THE BASELINE ASSUMPTION, IN THOSE WORDS: Quotation withheld Which of the competing accounts gets the default is a choice, and it is named as one rather than argued for EVIDENCE IS GRANTED AND THE CLAIM IS DECLINED IN THE SAME SENTENCE: although both likelihoods CLEARLY SHOW A PREFERENCE for a lensing amplitude above one, THIS CANNOT BE CLAIMED TO BE A ROBUST DETECTION at much over two sigma. `Clearly show` and `cannot be claimed` are asserted of the same result, and the line between them is a number THE COLLABORATION CALLS A PERSISTENT ANOMALY IN ITS OWN DATA A CURIOUS FEATURE: the preference for a lensing amplitude above one within the model IS A CURIOUS FEATURE OF THE PLANCK CMB POWER SPECTRUM DATA, and has already been discussed extensively in three earlier papers, ALTHOUGH IT IS NOW SLIGHTLY MORE SIGNIFICANT. A result that has survived three releases, growing, and the standing description of it is an adjective THE AUTHORS CHARACTERISE THEIR OWN REVISION AS LARGELY COSMETIC: it is important to emphasize that these changes to the likelihood ARE LARGELY COSMETIC AND HAVE VERY LITTLE IMPACT ON COSMOLOGICAL PARAMETERS. The word measures a methodological change by its effect on the outputs rather than by what was changed A METHOD CHANGE BETWEEN RELEASES IS STATED AS A DIFFERENCE FROM THE PREVIOUS PAPER, WITH THE OLD PROCEDURE DESCRIBED: Quotation withheld The superseded choice is named, so the two releases' numbers can be read as answers to slightly different questions A COINED ACRONYM IS MINTED FOR OBJECTS THE ANALYSIS ITSELF PRODUCES, AND THE RULE THAT DECIDES HOW MANY OF THEM COUNT IS LEFT UNNAMED: the rotation diagonalizing the Fisher inverse **DEFINES** the eigenmodes; truncation of the hierarchy, to determine the number used for parameter estimation, is performed ACCORDING TO SOME SUITABLY CHOSEN SELECTION CRITERION - AND WE REFER TO THESE MODES AS “eXeMs”. One sentence defines the objects, the next leaves the rule for counting them to be chosen suitably, and the third gives them a name A DISAGREEMENT IS LEFT OPEN WITH ITS THREE POSSIBLE MEANINGS ENUMERATED AND NONE CHOSEN: further work is needed to assess whether the discrepancy IS A STATISTICAL FLUCTUATION, IS CAUSED BY SMALL SYSTEMATIC ERRORS, OR IS A SIGNATURE OF NEW PHYSICS. Noise, error, and discovery are offered as the alternatives, in that order, and the paper declines to rank them AN ASSUMPTION IS JUSTIFIED BY WHAT THE SIMPLEST MODELS PREDICT, WITH THE PRECISION CAVEAT IN A PARENTHESIS: the base model assumes that the spatial hypersurfaces are flat, SUCH AS WOULD BE PREDICTED (TO WITHIN MEASURABLE PRECISION) BY THE SIMPLEST INFLATIONARY MODELS. The warrant for the assumption is the simplicity of a theory, and the hedge is about what an instrument could see A FEATURE THAT PULLS PARAMETERS AWAY FROM THE MODEL IS REPORTED AND REBUTTED IN THE SAME SENTENCE, BY NAMING THE PROBES THAT DO NOT SEE IT: a feature which pulls some parameters that affect the lensing amplitude away from the model; HOWEVER, THIS IS NOT SUPPORTED BY THE LENSING RECONSTRUCTION OR (in models that also change the background geometry) **BAO DATA**. The anomaly's own paper supplies the evidence against it Planck polarization dark matter baryon density lensing reionization cosmic microwave background (CMB) baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) reionization optical depth Hubble constant H0 matter density optical depth tensor-to-scalar ratio r chi-square confidence-interval confidence intervals correlation degrees-of-freedom degrees of freedom mean mean of standard-deviation standard deviation statistical-power statistical power statistical-significance statistical significance variance observational-study
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limitationsImperfect corrections for polarization efficiency and temperature-to-polarization leakage remain the dominant systematic error in the high-multipole polarization spectra.
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limitationsThe origin of the disagreement between Planck and the Lyman-alpha BAO measurements is left unresolved.
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what this limits: the Planck-versus-Lyman-alpha comparison: FURTHER WORK IS NEEDED TO ASSESS WHETHER THE DISCREPANCY ... IS A STATISTICAL FLUCTUATION, IS CAUSED BY SMALL SYSTEMATIC ERRORS, OR IS A SIGNATURE OF new physics
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limitationsThe likelihood used for the 2018 analysis was built on a fiducial model taken from the previous data release.
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limitationsCluster counts are excluded from the main parameter grid because their mass calibrations are uncertain.
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content_tagsdata are consistent with the base 6-parameter LCDM cosmology
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content_tagsa 3.6 sigma tension persists with local Hubble measurements
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content_tagsdark-energy equation of state is consistent with a cosmological constant
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content_tagsHubble constant H0
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content_tagsbaryon acoustic oscillation (BAO)
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