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CMB Record Consensus

A Record-Consensus Diagnostic on the Planck PR3 Component-Separated Maps

Jeremy C. Jones  ·  HoldingLight LLC
Version 1.0  ·  2026  ·  CC BY 4.0  ·  DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/PNF89

A reproducible record-consensus diagnostic for redundant measurement products, demonstrated on a high-quality public test case: the Planck PR3 component-separated CMB temperature maps (Commander, NILC, SEVEM, SMICA). The diagnostic measures how quickly disagreement shrinks when redundant record channels are averaged (r̄, D(k)) and states exactly what that agreement licenses.

The deposit includes the frozen reproducibility package, the conversion re-execution artifacts that verify every published digit from public materials, and supplements enabling one-command end-to-end recovery.

What this paper does not claim. The agreement measured here licenses a consensus demonstration among highly redundant records (k_eff ≈ 1) — not an independence audit.

Keywords: CMB; Planck PR3; record consensus; redundancy; reproducibility.


Treats each of the four Planck PR3 component-separated temperature maps as a redundant record channel and measures how fast disagreement falls under aggregation — a worked, digit-reproducible instance of the standards layer's consensus diagnostic, and a robustness statement about the published products.

Read first
TN-S₁ — Objectivity from Records · Methods-S₁ — Auditing Independence
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Do not read as
Evidence of independent redundancy — at the measured correlations the ensemble carries about one effective channel, so this documents consensus among redundant records, not accumulated independent evidence; the audited-independence question is open by design and assigned to the companion protocol · A test of ΛCDM, an anomaly evaluation, a parameter constraint, or a re-analysis of the Planck likelihood · An ontological claim about the early universe — inside the program it is an operational example of redundant-record stabilization, outside it a reproducibility check, and both readings are licensed

Jones, Jeremy C. (2026). CMB Record Consensus (v1.0). HoldingLight LLC.
https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/PNF89

Archival record: OSF


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