Extracting primordial density fluctuations
The combination of detections of anisotropy in cosmic microwave background radiation and observations of the large-scale distribution of galaxies probes the primordial density fluctuations of the universe on spatial scales varying by three orders of magnitude. These data are found to be inconsistent with the predictions of several popular cosmological models. Agreement between the data and the cold + hot dark matter model, however, suggests that a significant fraction of the matter in the universe may consist of massive neutrinos.
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E. Gawiser is at the Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. E-mail: gawiser@astron. berkeley.edu. J. Silk is at the Departments of Physics and Astronomy and the Center for Particle Astrophysics, Univ.
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