Dark Energy Cosmology with the Alternative Cosmic Microwave Background Data
arXiv:1012.0883 · doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2011/04/022
Abstract
Recently, in a series of works by Liu and Li (L&L), they claimed that there exists a timing asynchrony of ms between the spacecraft attitude and radiometer output timestamps in the original raw WMAP time-ordered data (TOD). L&L reprocessed the WMAP data while the aforementioned timing asynchrony has been corrected, and they obtained an alternative CMB map in which the quadrupole dropped to nearly zero. In the present work, we try to see the implications to dark energy cosmology if L&L are right. While L&L claimed that there is a bug in the WMAP pipeline which leads to significantly different cosmological parameters, an interesting question naturally arises, namely, how robust is the current dark energy cosmology with respect to systematic errors and bugs? So, in this work, we adopt the alternative CMB data of L&L as a strawman to study the robustness of dark energy predictions.
18 pages, 9 figures, 5 tables, revtex4; v2: accepted for publication in JCAP; v3: published version
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