{
  "id": "1107.4992",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2011-07-25T16:20:19.000Z",
  "updated": "2011-11-16T15:00:31.000Z",
  "title": "Features in the primordial spectrum: new constraints from WMAP7+ACT data and prospects for Planck",
  "authors": [
    "Micol Benetti",
    "Massimiliano Lattanzi",
    "Erminia Calabrese",
    "Alessandro Melchiorri"
  ],
  "comment": "V2: 8 pages, 8 figures. Minor changes. Two figures and references added. Matches version published in Phys. Rev. D",
  "journal": "Physical Review D 84, 063509 (2011)",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevD.84.063509",
  "categories": [
    "astro-ph.CO",
    "hep-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "We update the constraints on possible features in the primordial inflationary density perturbation spectrum by using the latest data from the WMAP7 and ACT Cosmic Microwave Background experiments. The inclusion of new data significantly improves the constraints with respect to older work, especially to smaller angular scales. While we found no clear statistical evidence in the data for extensions to the simplest, featureless, inflationary model, models with a step provide a significantly better fit than standard featureless power-law spectra. We show that the possibility of a step in the inflationary potential like the one preferred by current data will soon be tested by the forthcoming temperature and polarization data from the Planck satellite mission.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2011-11-16T15:00:31.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "98.70.Vc",
      "98.80.Cq",
      "98.80.Es"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "primordial spectrum",
      "constraints",
      "act cosmic microwave background experiments",
      "primordial inflationary density perturbation spectrum"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Physical Review D",
      "year": 2011,
      "month": "Sep",
      "volume": 84,
      "number": 6,
      "pages": "063509"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 8,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 920204,
      "adsabs": "2011PhRvD..84f3509B"
    }
  }
}