Minkowski functionals used in the morphological analysis of cosmic microwave background anisotropy maps

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 297, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 355-365

  Schmalzing, Jens ^a,b   Górski, Krzysztof M ^c,d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTROPHYSIK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c THEORETICAL ASTROPHYSICS CENTER   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cosmic microwave background; Methods: numerical; Methods: statistical

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; NUMERICAL METHODS;

COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND ANISOTROPIES; COSMIC MICROWAVES BACKGROUND; INTEGRAL GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL FRAMEWORKS; METHOD: NUMERICAL; METHODS:STATISTICAL; MINKOWSKI FUNCTIONALS; MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGICAL DESCRIPTORS; SHAPE PARAMETERS;

COSMOLOGY;

EID: 1542629810     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.1998.01467.x     Document Type: Article

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