Astrophysics, abstract
astro-ph/0601168

From: Andrew R. Liddle [view email]

Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 09:38:44 GMT (369kb)

The Cosmological Parameters 2005

Authors: Ofer Lahav, Andrew R Liddle

Comments: 26 pages TeX file. Article for The Review of Particle Physics 2006 (aka the Particle Data Book), published version at this http URL . This article supersedes astro-ph/0406681

Report-no: SUSSEX-AST/06-1

Journal-ref: S. Eidelman et al., Phys. Lett. B 592, 1 (2004) and 2005 partial update for the 2006 edition available at the PDG WWW pages at http://pdg.lbl.gov/

This is a review article for The Review of Particle Physics 2006 (aka the Particle Data Book). It forms a compact review of knowledge of the cosmological parameters as at the end of 2005. Topics included are Parametrizing the Universe; Extensions to the standard model; Probes; Bringing observations together; Outlook for the future.

http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0601168