A New Constraint on the Optical Depth from the Reionization History Independent of Cosmic Microwave Background Large-scale E-mode Polarization
Recent studies report a mild discrepancy between baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) and cosmic microwave background (CMB) measurements within the ΛCDM framework. This discrepancy could be explained if the optical depth τ inferred from the CMB large-scale E-mode polarization is underestimated, which may be biased by fore...