Global fits of the large volume string scenario to WMAP5 and other indirect constraints using Markov chain Monte Carlo

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Funding Acknowledgements

We would like to thank J.P. Conlon and F. Quevedo for useful discussions regarding the LVS, and S. AbdusSalam and S. Meinel for help with B observables. MJD is supported by EPSRC, the Cambridge European Trusts and St. John's College, Cambridge. These simulations were run on the Camgrid cluster with the help of Mark Calleja. This work is partially supported by STFC.