Parameter Estimation from the CMB

• CMB overview I
• CMB overview II
• CMB Fluctuations
• CMB Fluctuations as observed by COBE (1989), WMAP (2001), Planck (2009)
  
• Physical scales
• CMB Power Spectrum defined
• Multipole examples
  
• Example of predicted spectrum
• Power spectrum measurement pre-WMAP
• Satellite-measured power spectrum (WMAP, Planck)
• Aside: Colloquium power spectrum (courtesy Sabine Hossenfelder)
  
• Using the CMB power spectrum for cosmology
• Boomerang modeling of fluctuations
  
• What do the peaks tell us?
• Higher Peaks
• Parameter Sensitivity (from Hu & Dodelson, ARAA 2002)
  
• Polarization
  
• WMAP Year 5 Parameters (from Komatsu et al 2008)
• Planck 2015 Parameters (from Planck Collaboration 2015)
• Differences between WMAP and Planck. (from Larson etal 2015).