New method to constrain the relativistic free-streaming gas in the Universe |
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Authors: | Wen Zhao Yang Zhang Tianyang Xia |
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Institution: | 1. School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF24 3AA, United Kingdom;2. Wales Institute of Mathematical and Computational Sciences, Swansea SA2 8PP, United Kingdom;3. Department of Physics, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310014, People''s Republic of China;4. Key Laboratory of Galactic and Cosmological Research, Center for Astrophysics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, People''s Republic of China |
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Abstract: | We discuss a method to constrain the fraction density f of the relativistic gas in the radiation-dominant stage, by their impacts on a relic gravitational waves and the cosmic microwave background (CMB) B-polarization power spectrum. We find that the uncertainty of f strongly depends on the noise power spectra of the CMB experiments and the amplitude of the gravitational waves. Taking into account of the CMBPol instrumental noises, an uncertainty Δf=0.046 is obtained for the model with tensor-to-scalar ratio r=0.1. For an ideal experiment with only the reduced cosmic lensing as the contamination of B -polarization, Δf=0.008 is obtained for the model with r=0.1. So the precise observation of the CMB B-polarization provides a great opportunity to study the relativistic components in the early Universe. |
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Keywords: | 98 70 Vc 98 80 Cq 04 30 -w |
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