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04/22/2003 Archived Entry: "multiple peaks in the angular power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background"

According to this week's In-Cites, A measurement by BOOMERANG of multiple peaks in the angular power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background," by C.B. Netterfield and 32 others, Astrophysical Journal, 571(2):604-14, 1 June 2002, is the Hot Paper in Space Science. Cool! But yet another multi-authored paper ... must be folks ain't getting paid in real money ..... in any case

"Abstract: This paper presents a measurement of the angular power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background from l = 75 to l = 1025 (~10 to 2[degrees].4) from a combined analysis of 150 GHz channels in the BOOMERANG experiment. The spectrum contains multiple peaks and minima, as predicted by standard adiabatic inflationary models in which the primordial plasma undergoes acoustic oscillations. These results, in concert with other types of cosmological measurements and theoretical models, significantly constrain the values of [omega]tot, [omega]bh2, and ns." I am glad the experiment didn't boomerang on the experimental group. I always wondered whether to believe in the standard adiabatic inflationary models. Maybe that's the ticket ...adiabtic inflitaionary budgets couple with adiabatic tax cuts .... I also wonder if this lends credence to Tegmark's ideas about parallel universes?