CMB Anisotropy Constraints on Flat-Lambda and Open CDM Cosmogonies from DMR, UCSB South Pole, Python, ARGO, MAX, White Dish, OVRO, and SuZIE Data

Abstract

We use joint likelihood analyses of combinations of fifteen cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy data sets from the DMR, UCSB South Pole 1994, Python I--III, ARGO, MAX 4 and 5, White Dish, OVRO, and SuZIE experiments to constrain cosmogonies. We consider open and spatially-flat-Lambda cold dark matter cosmogonies, with nonrelativistic-mass density parameter Omega_0 in the range 0.1--1, baryonic-mass density parameter Omega_B in the range (0.005--0.029) h^{-2}, and age of the universe t_0 in the range (10--20) Gyr. Marginalizing over all parameters but Omega_0, the data favor Omega_0 \simeq 0.9--1 (0.4--0.6) flat-Lambda (open) models. The range in deduced Omega_0 values is partially a consequence of the different combinations of smaller-angular-scale CMB anisotropy data sets used in the analyses, but more significantly a consequence of whether the DMR quadrupole moment is accounted for or ignored in the analysis. For both flat-Lambda and open models, after marginalizing over all other parameters, a lower Omega_B h^2 \simeq 0.005--0.009 is favored. This is also marginally at odds with estimates from more recent CMB anisotropy data and some estimates from standard nucleosynthesis theory and observed light element abundances. For both sets of models a younger universe with t_0 \simeq 12--15 Gyr is favored, consistent with other recent non-CMB indicators. We emphasize that since we consider only a small number of data sets, these results are tentative. More importantly, the analyses here do not rule out the currently favored flat-Lambda model with Omega_0 \sim 0.3, nor the larger Omega_B h^2 values favored by some other data.