Comparison of results on $N_{\mathrm{eff}}$ from various Planck likelihoods

Abstract

In this paper, we study the estimation of the effective number of relativistic species from a combination of CMB and BAO data. We vary different ingredients of the analysis: the Planck high-$\ell$ likelihoods, the Boltzmann solvers, and the statistical approaches. The variation of the inferred values gives an indication of an additional systematic uncertainty, which is of the same order of magnitude as the error derived from each individual likelihood. We show that this systematic is essentially associated to the assumptions made in the high-$\ell$ likelihoods implementations, in particular for the foreground residuals modellings. We also compare a subset of likelihoods using only the TE power spectra, expected to be less sensitive to foreground residuals.

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