• Introduction
• Temperature Maps
  • Earth
  • Monopole
  • Dipole
  • COBE
  • Power
  • Precision
  • Features
• Thermal History
  • Expansion
  • Plasma
  • Glue
  • Pressure
  • Thermal
• Acoustic Oscillations
  • Gravity
  • Plane Waves
  • Harmonics
  • Extrema
• Angular Peaks
  • Spatial/Angular
  • Oscillation
  • Freeze Frame
  • Streaming
  • Soundscape
• First Peak
  • Data
  • Curvature
  • Flatness
  • Dark Energy
  • Summary
• Second Peak
  • Data
  • Inertia
  • Baryonmeter
  • Power
  • Dark Baryons
  • Summary
• Higher Peaks
  • Driving Force
  • Power
  • Summary
• Damping Tail
  • Diffusion
  • Ruler
  • Consistency
  • Summary
• Parameter Estimation
  • Parameters
  • Degeneracy
• Polarization
  • What and Why
  • Scattering
  • Projection
  • Power
  • Quadrupoles
  • B-modes
  • Gravity Waves
• Summary

The First Three Peaks

Key Concepts

• First peak shows the universe is close to spatially flat
• Constraints on the second peak indicate substantial amounts of dark baryons
• Third peak will measure the physical density of the dark matter