Comparative CMBology: Putting Things Together
Abstract
I present a series of diagrams which illustrate why the cosmic microwave background (CMB) data favor certain values for the cosmological parameters. Various methods to extract these parameters from CMB and non-CMB observations are forming an ever-tightening network of interlocking constraints. I review the increasingly precise constraints in the Omegam - OmegaLambda plane and show why more cosmologists now prefer Lambda-CDM cosmologies to any other leading model.
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