The discriminating power of wavelets to detect non-Gaussianity in the cosmic microwave background

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 327, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 813-828

  Barreiro, R B ^a   Hobson, M P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cosmic microwave background; Methods: data analysis

Indexed keywords

STATISTICAL TESTS; WAVELET DECOMPOSITION;

COSMIC MICROWAVES BACKGROUND; COSMIC STRINGS; DISCRIMINATING POWER; FISHER DISCRIMINANT FUNCTION; METHODS. DATA ANALYSIS; NONGAUSSIANITY; TEST STATISTICS; WAVELET TECHNIQUES; WAVELET-BASED METHODS;

COSMOLOGY;

EID: 0037670472     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04806.x     Document Type: Article

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