Sun 08 May 2016 03:10:07 AM UTC, comment #1:
Thank your for highlighting this important issue. A comment was added in src/cosmiccal/astcosmiccal.conf file (main system wide configuration file after installation) to cite the reference for these values. It has been merged into master.
The current default values in CosmicCalculator come from the Plank 2013 results (link below, page 10, Table 2, Plank+lensing results)
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014A%26A...571A..16P
One of the main reasons that I didn't use the 2015 results is that they are not yet accepted by A&A for publication (last column of link below):
http://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/planck/publications
So I thought that if the journal editors have not yet accepted to publish these results yet, we should also be a little patient ;-). In version-control-speak, its like a commit that has not yet been merged into master ;-)!
When those results are finally accepted by the editors and published, we will certainly update CosmiCalculator's default values too. Ofcourse, from the ADS link to the 2015 results (link below), you see that until now 1256 people have used the 2015 results in their papers.
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/bib_query?arXiv:1502.01589
If those people want to use the 2015 parameters with CosmicCalculator, they can easily modify src/cosmiccal/astcosmiccal.conf before installation, or modify them in their user and current directory configuration files (using the --setdirconf and --setusrconf options). For those readers who are not yet fully familiar, please have a look at the "Configuration files" section of the manual (link below).
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuastro/manual/html_node/Configuration-files.html
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