CosmoCoffee

Hello everybody.

I have some doubts on the role of the bbn_consistency flag in CosmoMC. First of all, by default this flag is set to T in batch2/params_CMB_defaults.ini:
As far as I see, this means that we use the Parthenelope fitting table (at $COSMOMC/data) just to calculate the primordial abundances of helium and deuterium as a function of omegabh2 and the extra relativistic number of species (see source/CosmologyParametrizations). These calculations are just theoretical predictions, since the program does not handle observational data on that subject against which these predictions can be compared. Am I right?

Regards

That's right. (there is a dataset format for element abundance data as well)

Dear Antony. Thanks for the quick reply. I suppose that the abundance data you mention is the Cooke's and Izotov's measurements of primordial deuterium and helium, respectively (these data can be found at $COSMOMC/data/D_Cooke2013.dataset & Yp_Izotov2014.dataset). If I'd like to take into account this information in my analysis, I guess that I would have to include batch2/abundances.ini in my ini file. Am I right?

Regards

Yes, just include/edit batch2/abundances.ini as required.