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Are SP91 and COBE Inconsistent with Cold Dark Matter?

E. Bunn, M. White, M. Srednicki, D. Scott

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/9308021

Abstract

We present results on the consistency of standard cold dark matter (CDM) models with both the COBE normalization and the data from the 4th channel of the 9-point South Pole scan. We find that CDM models are consistent with both experiments, a conclusion which is at odds with some other analyses. This is partly due to our careful treatment of the temperature autocorrelation function, but also derives from a realization that the statistical conclusions depend strongly on assumptions about the prior distribution for the normalization Q.

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