The cosmic microwave background State of the art

New Astronomy Reviews

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 179-204

  Barreiro, R Belén ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTO DE FÍSICA DE CANTABRIA CSIC UC   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Background; Cosmic; Microwave

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010916999     PISSN: 13876473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1387-6473(00)00063-4     Document Type: Article

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