Construction of cosmic string induced temperature anisotropy maps with CMBFAST and statistical analysis

Physical Review D

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2001, Pages

  Simatos, N ^a   Perivolaropoulos, L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; COSMIC RADIATION; COSMOS; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PHYSICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0035862283     PISSN: 05562821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.63.025018     Document Type: Article

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