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Primordial Nucleosynthesis, Cosmic Microwave Background and Neutrinos
We report the results of a recent likelihood analysis combining the
primordial nucleosynthesis and the BOOMERanG and MAXIMA-1 data on cosmic
microwave background radiation anisotropies. We discuss the possible
implications for relic neutrino background of a high value for the baryonic
matter content of the universe, larger than what is expected in a standard
nucleosynthesis scenario.Comment: 3 pages, 1 figure, some typos corrected, one reference added,
presented by G. Mangano at NOW 2000, Europhysics Neutrino Oscillation
Workshop, Otranto 200
Reproducing the observed Cosmic microwave background anisotropies with causal scaling seeds
During the last years it has become clear that global O(N) defects and U(1)
cosmic strings do not lead to the pronounced first acoustic peak in the power
spectrum of anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background which has recently
been observed to high accuracy. Inflationary models cannot easily accommodate
the low second peak indicated by the data. Here we construct causal scaling
seed models which reproduce the first and second peak. Future, more precise CMB
anisotropy and polarization experiments will however be able to distinguish
them from the ordinary adiabatic models.Comment: 6 pages 2 figures, revtex; minor corrections and references adde
CMB anisotropies from pre-big bang cosmology
We present an alternative scenario for cosmic structure formation where
initial fluctuations are due to Kalb-Ramond axions produced during a pre-big
bang phase of inflation. We investigate whether this scenario, where the
fluctuations are induced by seeds and therefore are of isocurvature nature, can
be brought in agreement with present observations by a suitable choice of
cosmological parameters. We also discuss several observational signatures which
can distinguish axion seeds from standard inflationary models. We finally
discuss the gravitational wave background induced in this model and we show
that it may be well within the range of future observations.Comment: 33 pages, 18 figures, corrected some typo
An indirect limit on the amplitude of primordial Gravitational Wave Background from CMB-Galaxy Cross Correlation
While large scale cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies involve a
combination of the scalar and tensor fluctuations, the scalar amplitude can be
independently determined through the CMB-galaxy cross-correlation. Using
recently measured cross-correlation amplitudes, arising from the
cross-correlation between galaxies and the Integrated Sachs Wolfe effect in CMB
anisotropies, we obtain a constraint r < 0.5 at 68% confidence level on the
tensor-to-scalar fluctuation amplitude ratio. The data also allow us to exclude
gravity waves at a level of a few percent, relative to the density field, in a
low - Lambda dominated universe(Omega_Lambda~0.5). In future, joining
cross-correlation ISW measurements, which captures cosmological parameter
information, with independent determinations of the matter density and CMB
anisotropy power spectrum, may constrain the tensor-to-scalar ratio to a level
above 0.05. This value is the ultimate limit on tensor-to-scalar ratio from
temperature anisotropy maps when all other cosmological parameters except for
the tensor amplitude are known and the combination with CMB-galaxy correlation
allows this limit to be reached easily by accounting for degeneracies in
certain cosmological parameters.Comment: 5 Pages, 1 Figure, revised discussion on cosmic variance limits on
the tensor-to-scalar ratio from CMB, matches PRD accepted versio
Cosmological Constraints from a Combined Analysis of the Cluster Mass Function and Microwave Background Anisotropies
We present constraints on several cosmological parameters from a combined
analysis of the most recent Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropy data and the
Sloan Digital Sky Survey cluster mass function. We find that the combination of
the two data sets breaks several degeneracies among the parameters and provides
the following constraints: ,
, , ,
.Comment: 7 pages, 1 figur
Port Hamiltonian formulation of infinite dimensional systems I. Modeling
In this paper, some new results concerning the modeling of distributed parameter systems in port Hamiltonian form are presented. The classical finite dimensional port Hamiltonian formulation of a dynamical system is generalized in order to cope with the distributed parameter and multivariable case. The resulting class of infinite dimensional systems is quite general, thus allowing the description of several physical phenomena, such as heat conduction, piezoelectricity and elasticity. Furthermore, classical PDEs can be rewritten within this framework. The key point is the generalization of the notion of finite dimensional Dirac structure in order to deal with an infinite dimensional space of power variables
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