Exploring the Tension between Current Cosmic Microwave Background and Cosmic Shear Data

This paper provides a snapshot of the formal S 8 ≡ σ 8 Ω m / 0.3 tension between Planck 2015 and the Kilo Degree Survey of450 deg 2 of imaging data (KiDS-450) or the Canada France Hawaii Lensing Survey (CFHTLenS). We find that the Cosmic Microwave Bckground (CMB) and cosmic shear datasets are in tension in the standard Λ Cold Dark Matter ( Λ CDM) model, and that adding massive neutrinos does not relieve the tension. If we include an additional scaling parameter on the CMB lensing amplitude A l e n s, we find that this can put in agreement the Planck 2015 with the cosmic shear data. A l e n s is a phenomenological parameter that is found to be more than 2 σ higher than the expected value in the Planck 2015 data, suggesting an higher amount of lensing in the power spectra, not supported by the trispectrum analysis.

Authors

Eleonora Di Valentino; Sarah Bridle

Published

Nov 2, 2018

Journal or venue

Symmetry

DOI

10.3390/sym10110585

Paper type

journal article

Source

Crossref