Analyse this! A cosmological constraint package for CMBEASY

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn , Issue 9, 2004, Pages 37-52

  Doran, Michael ^a   Müller, Christian M ^b  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

^b INSTITUT FÜR THEORETISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

CMBR experiments; CMBR theory; Cosmological perturbation theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 23244457066     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2004/09/003     Document Type: Review

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