Impact of the damping tail on neutrino mass constraints

Abstract

Model-independent mass limits assess the robustness of current cosmological measurements of the neutrino mass scale. Consistency between high-multipole and low-multiple Cosmic Microwave Background observations measuring such scale further valuate the constraining power of present data. We derive here up-to-date limits on neutrino masses and abundances exploiting either the Data Release 4 of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) or the South Pole Telescope polarization measurements from SPT-3G, envisaging different non-minimal background cosmologies and marginalizing over them. By combining these high-$\ell$ observations with Supernova Ia, Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO), Redshift Space Distortions (RSD) and a prior on the reionization optical depth from WMAP data, we find that the marginalized bounds are competitive with those from Planck analyses. We obtain $\sum m_{\nu }<0.139$ eV and $N_{\text{eff}}=2.82\pm 0.25$ in a dark energy quintessence scenario, both at $95\%$ CL. These limits translate into $\sum m_{\nu }<0.20$ eV and $N_{\text{eff}}=2.79_{-0.28}^{+0.30}$ after marginalizing over a plethora of well-motivated fiducial models. Our findings reassess both the strength and the reliability of cosmological neutrino mass constraints.

11 pages, 3 figures, 4 tables. Matches version accepted for publication in PRD

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