2000/11/24 by Charles H. Lineweaver, Lineweaver, Charles H.
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0011448
10 pages, 11 figures, Manchester IAU proceedings, "New Cosmological Data and the Values of Fundamental Parameters", edt A. Lasenby, A. Wilkinson
arxiv created 2000/11/24 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
I present a series of diagrams which illustrate why the cosmic microwave background (CMB) data favor certain values for the cosmological parameters. Various methods to extract these parameters from CMB and non-CMB observations are forming an ever-tightening network of interlocking constraints. I review the increasingly precise constraints in the Omegam - OmegaLambda plane and show why more cosmologists now prefer Lambda-CDM cosmologies to any other leading model.