Consistency check of ΛCDM phenomenology

Lucas Lombriser
Phys. Rev. D 83, 063519 – Published 21 March 2011

Abstract

The standard model of cosmology ΛCDM assumes general relativity, flat space, and the presence of a positive cosmological constant. We relax these assumptions allowing spatial curvature, a time-dependent effective dark energy equation of state, as well as modifications of the Poisson equation for the lensing potential, and modifications of the growth of linear matter density perturbations in alternate combinations. Using six parameters characterizing these relations, we check ΛCDM for consistency utilizing cosmic microwave background anisotropies, cross correlations thereof with high-redshift galaxies through the integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect, the Hubble constant, supernovae, and baryon acoustic oscillation distances, as well as the relation between weak gravitational lensing and galaxy flows. In all scenarios, we find consistency of the concordance model at the 95% confidence level. However, we emphasize that constraining supplementary background parameters and parametrizations of the growth of large-scale structure separately may lead to a priori exclusion of viable departures from the concordance model.

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  • Received 6 January 2011

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.83.063519

© 2011 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Lucas Lombriser

  • Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland

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Vol. 83, Iss. 6 — 15 March 2011

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