March 2006 - Cosmo-torun - cosmo.torun.pl

Britannica vs. Wikipedia
by Andrzej Marecki 30 Mar '06

30 Mar '06

Which source is more error prone: Britannica or Wikipedia? Read: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v440/n7084/full/440582b.html -- a.m.

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[Cosmo-pl] WMAP 3yr data - Omega_tot \approx 1.010-1.015 :))))) (fwd)
by Boud Roukema 17 Mar '06

17 Mar '06

hi everyone, i don't know if everyone on cosmo-torun is on cosmo-pl. Anyway, i sent the following to cosmo-pl. pozdr boud > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 16:25:42 +0100 (CET) > From: Boud ... > To: cosmo-pl at ... > Subject: [Cosmo-pl] WMAP 3yr data - Omega_tot \approx 1.010-1.015 :))))) > > Witam cosmo-pl, > > The 3-year WMAP data is now available: > http://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/product/map/dr2/ilc_map_get.cfm > > As expected from the Poincare Dodecahedral Space analyses, e.g. > http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0310253 Luminet et al. > http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0402608 Toruń > http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0412569 Aurich Lustig Steiner > http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0503014 Gundermann > http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0504656 Aurich Lustig Steiner > > the estimates of Omega_total remain in the range 1.010-1.020. :)))) > > Spergel et al find: > > http://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/product/map/dr2/pub_papers/threeyear/parameters… > > Omega_tot = > 1.015 (+0.020,-0.016) WMAP-3yr + SNLS (supernova legacy survey) > 1.010 (+0.016,-0.009) WMAP-3yr + HST key project on H_0 > > No matter how hard people try to combine different data sets, it seems > that nobody can get Omega_tot much closer to 1.000 (except by assumption). > > In the conclusion, section 9, page 61 of Spergel et al., you'll see > that after people like me have repeated ad infinitum in many, many > seminars etc that WMAP does not imply a flat Universe, it only > implies a "nearly flat Universe", finally, Spergel et al. have started > using this expression: > > "The WMAP data are consistent with nearly flat universe". > > :) > > Anyway, hopefully in the next week, i and the other people who have > volunteered ;) to help organise a small, "polish cosmology" > workshop/meeting in Toruń, probably in May, will send out a > "pre-registration" announcement... > > > pozdr > boud > > _______________________________________________ > Cosmo-pl mailing list > Cosmo-pl at cosmo.torun.pl > http://cosmo.torun.pl/mailman/listinfo/cosmo-pl >

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wmap2
by Bartosz Lew 16 Mar '06

16 Mar '06

hi all, the wmap 2nd year data finally are abaut to be released - today :] http://www.bautforum.com/showthread.php?t=23857&page=10 pozdr. bartek

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