Detectability of inflation-produced gravitational waves

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 1997, Pages R435-R439

  Turner, Michael S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NASA FERMILAB ASTROPHYSICS CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 0001306103     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.55.R435     Document Type: Article

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