The Cosmic Background Radiation circa nu2K by Bond, JR, Pogosyan, D, Prunet, S, collaboration, TM, Ade, P, Balbi, A, Bock, J, Borrill, J, Boscaleri, A, Coble, K, Crill, B, Bernardis, P, Farese, P, Ferreira, P, Ganga, K, Giacometti, M, Hanany, S, Hivon, E, Hristov, V, Iacoangeli, A, Jaffe, A, Lange, A, Lee, A, Martinis, L, Masi, S

“…Combining all of the current CMB+LSS data points to the remarkable conclusion that the local Hubble patch we can access has little mean curvature (Omega_{tot}=1.08\pm 0.06) and the initial fluctuations were nearly scale invariant (n_s=1.03\pm 0.08), both predictions of (non-baroque) inflation theory. The baryon density is found to be slightly larger than that preferred by independent Big Bang Nucleosynthesis estimates (omega_b=0.030\pm 0.005 cf. 0.019\pm 0.002). …”

The Quintessential CMB, Past and Future by Bond, JR, Pogosyan, D, Prunet, S, Sigurdson, K, collaboration, TM, Ade, P, Balbi, A, Bock, J, Borrill, J, Boscaleri, A, Coble, K, Crill, B, Bernardis, P, Farese, P, Ferreira, P, Ganga, K, Giacometti, M, Hanany, S, Hivon, E, Hristov, V, Iacoangeli, A, Jaffe, A, Lange, A, Lee, A, Martinis, L

“…After marginalizing over the other cosmic and experimental variables, we find the current CMB+LSS+SN1 data gives Omega_{tot}=1.04\pm 0.05, consistent with (non-baroque) inflation theory. Restricting to Omega_{tot}=1, we find a nearly scale invariant spectrum, n_s =1.03 \pm 0.07. …”

CMB Analysis of Boomerang and Maxima and the Cosmic Parameters {Omega_tot,Omega_b h^2,Omega_cdm h^2,Omega_Lambda,n_s} by Bond, JR, Ade, P, Balbi, A, Bock, J, Borrill, J, Boscaleri, A, Coble, K, Crill, B, Bernardis, P, Farese, P, Ferreira, P, Ganga, K, Giacometti, M, Hanany, S, Hivon, E, Hristov, V, Iacoangeli, A, Jaffe, A, Lange, A, Lee, A, Martinis, L, Masi, S, Mauskopf, P, Melchiorri, A, Montroy, T, Netterfield, B, Oh, S, Pascale, E, Piacentini, F, Pogosyan, D, Prunet, S, Rabii, B, Rao, S, Richards, P, Romeo, G, Ruhl, J, Scaramuzzi, F, Sforna, D, Sigurdson, K, Smoot, G, Stompor, R, Winant, C, Wu, P

“…All current CMB data plus a relatively weak prior probability on the Hubble constant, age and LSS points to little mean curvature (Omega_{tot} = 1.08\pm 0.06) and nearly scale invariant initial fluctuations (n_s =1.03\pm 0.08), both predictions of (non-baroque) inflation theory. We emphasize the role that degeneracy among parameters in the L_{pk} = 212\pm 7 position of the (first acoustic) peak plays in defining the $\Omega_{tot}$ range upon marginalization over other variables. …”