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3 claims from 2 papers

1. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

   Planck 2018 results

   Aghanim, Akrami, Ashdown et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics · 2020

   Final full-mission Planck cosmic microwave background data, with temperature, polarization and lensing, are used to measure cosmological parameters, finding good consistency with the standard six-parameter ΛCDM model.

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   1. UncheckedPlanck's combined analysis gives dark matter and baryon densities, spectral index and optical depth, each with stated 68% uncertainties, in base ΛCDM.“A combined analysis gives dark matter density Ω c h 2 = 0.120 ± 0.001, baryon density Ω b h 2 = 0.0224 ± 0.0001, scalar spectral index n s = 0.965 ± 0.004, and optical depth τ = 0.054 ± 0.007 (in this abstract we quote 68% confidence regions on measured parameters and 95% on upper limits).”
   2. UncheckedPlanck with BAO data gives N_eff = 2.99 ± 0.17, matching the Standard Model's 3.046, and limits the summed neutrino mass to below 0.12 eV.“Combining with baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurements (and considering single-parameter extensions) we constrain the effective extra relativistic degrees of freedom to be N eff = 2.99 ± 0.17, in agreement with the Standard Model prediction N eff = 3.046, and find that the neutrino mass is t…”

2. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

   Planck 2018 results

   Aghanim, Akrami, Ashdown et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics · 2020

   The paper describes the 2018 Planck CMB likelihoods, which now make full use of the High Frequency Instrument polarization data and are presented as a robust tool for constraining the cosmological model.

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   1. UncheckedPlanck's low-multipole 100x143 GHz polarization (EE) cross-spectrum, with other likelihoods, constrains the reionization optical depth τ to better than 15%.“The low-multipole 100x143 GHz EE cross-spectrum constrains the reionization optical-depth parameter $τ$ to better than 15% (in combination with with the other low- and high-$\ell$ likelihoods).”