Parameter Estimation from the CMB

• CMB overview I
• CMB overview II
• CMB Fluctuations
• CMB observed by WMAP
  
• Physical scales
• CMB Power Spectrum defined
• Example of predicted spectrum
• Power spectrum measurement pre-WMAP
• Year 5 WMAP power spectrum (WMAP only, WMAP+others)
  
• 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)