The large-scale smoothness of the Universe

Nature

Volumn 397, Issue 6716, 1999, Pages 225-230

  Wu, Kelvin K S ^a   Lahav, Ofer ^a,b   Rees, Martin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ASTRONOMY; COSMOS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASUREMENT; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0033590542     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/16637     Document Type: Review

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