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Rumours about potential WMAP 2nd year discoveries
Posted: February 24 2005
by Henk Hoekstra
I wouldn't be surprised. In Contaldi et al. the combination of the TT and cosmic shear also preferred a "high" value, but now we have a "slightly" better estimate of the source redshift distribution and I think the lensing \sigma_8 will come down a little, closer to 0.75-0.8 or so,
which would also favour a lower optical depth.
Rumours about potential WMAP 2nd year discoveries
Posted: March 08 2005
by Alessandro Melchiorri
Ehi, it seems that the rumour about the cosmic string was true in some way !
Look at today's
astro-ph/0503120 ! The evidence is really small but the result is
definilty interesting !
experimental repeatability
Posted: March 24 2005
by Boud Roukema
Alessandro Melchiorri wrote:Uhm...these experiments are so difficult to make !
14 billion years to wait for the results, and then the skeptics claim that you don't even exist.