Testing non-Gaussianity in cosmic microwave background maps by morphological statistics

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 331, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 865-874

  Shandarin, Sergei F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmic microwave background; Cosmology: theory; Methods: data analysis

Indexed keywords

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY; TESTING;

COSMIC MICROWAVES BACKGROUND; COSMOLOGY: THEORY; GAUSSIAN FIELD; METHODS. DATA ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERS; NONGAUSSIANITY; PROBABILITY FUNCTIONS; QUADRATIC MODELING; SIMPLE++;

COSMOLOGY;

EID: 0038684835     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05248.x     Document Type: Article

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