Cross-tests of CMB features in the primordial spectra

Abstract

The recent Planck data on the power spectrum of temperature anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background marginally support deviations from the $\Lambda$CDM model at several multipoles. With a view towards current and forthcoming observational surveys, we trace these features to other observables like the scalar bispectrum and the tensor power spectrum. A possible detection of such bumps in these channels would increase their statistical significance shedding light on the ultra violet mechanisms responsible for their appearance in the data.

arXiv comment7 pp., 1 figure. Contribution to the proceedings of "STARS2017 - 4th Caribbean Symposium on Cosmology, Gravitation, Nuclear and Astroparticle Physics / SMFNS2017 - 5th International Symposium on Strong Electromagnetic Fields and Neutron Stars", 7 to 13 of May, 2017, Havana and Varadero, Cuba. Talk also given in PASCOS-17 and COSMO-17

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