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The Planck mission has revealed some interesting features of the universe. I will attempt to recap some of the highlights from preprint papers at http://www.sciops.esa.int/index.php?project=PLANCK&page=Planck_Published_Papers .
XV: there is a 5-10% deficit in low mode [l<40] power spectrum vs standard LCDM
XV1 : no evidence for dynamical dark energy models of inflation, adding Ho to CMB and
BAO yields Neff of 3.62. Additional neutrino species are not conclusively
excluded, or preferred.
XVII: inflation models with exponential, monomial or quadratic large field potentials are
disfavored.
XXIX: severe constraints are imposed on enkryptotic/cyclical, gauge field, warm and
k-inflation models.
XXV: no evidence of cosmic strings is detected.
XXVI: Bianci VII models are disfavored. No evidence of vorticity, circles in the sky,
compact topology at sizes < surface of last scattering.
In short, my read is string theory took some big hits here.
XV: there is a 5-10% deficit in low mode [l<40] power spectrum vs standard LCDM
XV1 : no evidence for dynamical dark energy models of inflation, adding Ho to CMB and
BAO yields Neff of 3.62. Additional neutrino species are not conclusively
excluded, or preferred.
XVII: inflation models with exponential, monomial or quadratic large field potentials are
disfavored.
XXIX: severe constraints are imposed on enkryptotic/cyclical, gauge field, warm and
k-inflation models.
XXV: no evidence of cosmic strings is detected.
XXVI: Bianci VII models are disfavored. No evidence of vorticity, circles in the sky,
compact topology at sizes < surface of last scattering.
In short, my read is string theory took some big hits here.
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