Morphological measures of non-Gaussianity in cosmic microwave background maps

Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series

Volumn 141, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-11

  Shandarin, Sergei F ^a   Feldman, Hume A ^a   Xu, Yongzhong ^b   Tegmark, Max ^b  

^a University of Kansas   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmic microwave background; Cosmology: theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037577397     PISSN: 00670049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/339804     Document Type: Review

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