Highlights and Conclusions of the Chalonge 13th Paris Cosmology
  Colloquium
  The 13th Chalonge Paris Cosmology Colloquium was held at the historic
Perrault building of Observatoire de Paris on 23-25 July 2009. The Colloquium
was held in the spirit of the Chalonge School, putting together real
cosmological and astrophysical data and hard theory predictive approach in the
framework of the Standard Model of the Universe. Peter Biermann, James Bullock,
Claudio Destri, Hector de Vega, Massimo Giovannini, Sasha Kashlinsky, Eiichiro
Komatsu, Anthony Lasenby and Norma G. Sanchez present here their highlights of
the Colloquium. The summary and conclusions by H. J. de Vega, M. C. Falvella
and N. G. Sanchez stress among other points: (i) the primordial CMB
fluctuations are almost gaussian, large primordial non-gaussianity and large
running index are strongly disfavored. The primordial graviton ratio r is
predicted in the effective theory of inflation to be between 0.021 and 0.053,
at reach of the next CMB observations. (ii) Dark energy observations are
consistent with the cosmological constant. (iii) The cosmic ray positron excess
recently observed is explained by natural astrophysical processes. (iv) The
heavy dark matter particle candidates ( > 1 GeV, wimps) became strongly
disfavored, while cored (non cusped) dark matter halos and light (keV scale
mass) dark matter are being increasingly favored from theory and astrophysical
observations. The Daniel Chalonge Medal 2009 was awarded to Peter Biermann
during the Colloquium. Photos of the Colloquium are included.
