1112.6252 (Stefano Sello)
Stefano Sello
In a recent article by Benson et al., 2011, the authors show the latest
measurements from the South Pole Telescope (SPT) Sunyaev Zel'dovich (SZ)
cluster survey to better constrain some cosmological parameters. In particular,
the authors found that adding the SPT cluster data significantly improves the
constraints on equation of state of dark energy, w, beyond those found when
using measurements of the CMB, supernovae, BAO and the Hubble constant. The
main aim of the present research note is to give a further quantitative
estimation of the above better constraints, through the computation of the
Figure of Merit (FoM) applied to \Omega_m and w plots for the 68% and 95%
confidence regions. This allows a better evaluation and a better comparison of
the continuous improvements on the cosmological constraints, obtained using new
different cosmological probes and different surveys.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.6252
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