Gravitational radiation from cosmic (super)strings: Bursts, stochastic background, and observational windows

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1-13

  Damour, Thibault ^a   Vilenkin, Alexander ^b  

^a INSTITUT DES HAUTES ÉTUDES SCIENTIFIQUES   (France)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COSMOS; DATA ANALYSIS; GRAVITY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PARAMETER; PROBABILITY; QUANTUM MECHANICS; RADIATION ENERGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIGNAL DETECTION; STANDARD; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TECHNIQUE; WAVEFORM;

EID: 18544362635     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.71.063510     Document Type: Article

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