A preferred-direction statistic for sky maps

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 313, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 331-337

  Bunn, Emory F ^a   Scott, Douglas ^b  

^a ST CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cosmic microwave background; Cosmology: observations; Cosmology: theory; Large scale structure of Universe; Methods: numerical

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL METHODS; STATISTICAL TESTS; STATISTICS; TOPOLOGY;

ALL-SKY; COSMIC MICROWAVES BACKGROUND; COSMOLOGY OBSERVATIONS; COSMOLOGY: THEORY; DATA SET; LARGE SCALE STRUCTURE OF UNIVERSE; LARGE-SCALE UNIVERSE; METHOD: NUMERICAL; NON-TRIVIAL; TOPOLOGICAL DEFECT;

COSMOLOGY;

EID: 0010663503     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2000.03212.x     Document Type: Article

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