How can one explain existence of acoustic peaks in cosmic microwave background anisotropies? CMB calibration •Not coincidentally the sound horizon is extremely well determined by the structure of the acoustic peaks in the CMB. The locations and amplitudes of three acoustic peaks and two dips in the last re-leases of the Boomerang, MAXIMA and DASI measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy power spectra as well as their statistical con dence lev-els are determined in a model-independent way. Baryon acoustic oscillations acoustic peaks in cosmic microwave background anisotropies provides evidence for cold dark matter but is there any sort of prediction as to the specific properties of this dark matter? However, for a WMAP 5th yr data The difierences in this case are: 1) that we are not seeing the three-dimensional ... peaks and troughs, which remain so when squared to give the power spectrum. The locations and amplitudes of three acoustic peaks and two dips in the BOOMERANG, MAXIMA, and DASI measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy power spectra as well as their statistical confidence levels are determined in a model-independent way. predictions as to the mass of this dark matter, total mass, and mass of the individual particle, i.e 100 gev. • The first peak used to be called the Doppler peak because it is where Doppler effects dominate. Acoustic Peaks The above CMB maps are pretty, but what do they mean? To answer that, we must consider in more detail what causes these fluctuations. The temperature fluctuations in the CMB, especially the so-called acoustic peaks in the angular power spectrum of CMB anisotropies, capture the physics of primordial photon-baryon fluid undergoing oscillations in the potential wells of dark The sound speed results from the competition between restoring forces and inertia. 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