Observational Matter Power Spectrum and the Height of the Second Acoustic Peak.pdf

a r X i v : a s t r o - p h / 0 0 1 2 3 2 0 v 3 6 N o v 2 0 0 1 Draft version February 1, 2008 Preprint typeset using LATEX style emulateapj OBSERVATIONAL MATTER POWER SPECTRUM AND THE HEIGHT OF THE SECOND ACOUSTIC PEAK F. Atrio–Barandela F??sica Teo?rica. Facultad de Ciencias Universidad de Salamanca, 37008 Spain e–mail: atrio@orion.usal.es J. Einasto Tartu Observatory, EE-61602 Estonia e–mail: einasto@aai.ee V. Mu?ller, J. P. Mu?cket Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam An der Sternwarte 16, D-14482 Potsdam, Germany e–mail: (vmueller, jpmuecket)@aip.de A. A. Starobinsky Research Center for the Early Universe, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan and Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Moscow 117334, Russia e–mail: alstar@landau.ac.ru Draft version February 1, 2008 ABSTRACT We show that the amplitude of the second acoustic peak in the newly released BOOMERANG-98 and MAXIMA-I data is compatible with the standard primordial nucleosynthesis and with the locally broken- scale-invariant matter power spectrum suggested by recent measurements of the power spectrum in the range 20?200 h?1 Mpc. If the slope of matter density perturbations on large scales is n ≈ 1, the Hubble constant is 0.5 h 0.75, and r.m.s. mass fluctuations at 8 h?1 Mpc are 0.65 ≤ σ8 ≤ 0.75, then for a Universe approximately 14 Gyr old our best fit within the nucleosynthesis bound ?Bh 2 = 0.019±0.0024 requires 0.3 ≤ ?m ≤ 0.5. Cluster abundances further constraint the matter density to be ?m ≈ 0.3. The CMB data alone are not able to determine the detailed form of the matter power spectrum in the range 0.03 k 0.06 h Mpc?1 where deviations from the scale-invariant spectrum are expected to be most significant, but they do not contradict the existence of the previously claimed peak at k ～ 0.05 h Mpc?1, and a depression at k ～ 0.035 h Mpc?1. Subject headings: cosmic microwave background – cosmology: theory – cosmology: observations 1. INTRODUCTION The recently released data from BOOMERANG-