Evidence against or for topological defects in the BOOMERanG data?

Physical Review D

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2002, Pages

  Bouchet, F R ^a   Peter, P ^a   Riazuelo, A ^b   Sakellariadou, M ^a,c  

^a INSTITUT D'ASTROPHYSIQUE DE PARIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; COSMOS; OSCILLATION; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SPECTRUM;

EID: 0037080635     PISSN: 05562821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.65.021301     Document Type: Article

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