Can the lack of symmetry in the COBE DMR maps constrain the topology of the universe?

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 468, Issue 2 PART I, 1996, Pages 457-461

  De Oliveira Costa, Angélica ^a,b   Smoot, George F ^a   Starobinsky, Alexei A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^c LANDAU INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Cosmic microwave background; Cosmology: observations; Cosmology: theory; Large scale structure of universe

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001377444     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/177706     Document Type: Article

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