Full-sky correlation functions for CMB experiments with asymmetric window functions

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 71, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1-9

  Ng, Kin Wang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; POLARIZATION; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 18444364970     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.71.083009     Document Type: Article

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