Random-walk statistics and the spherical harmonic representation of cosmic microwave background maps

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 364, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 929-933

  Stannard, Andrew ^a   Coles, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cosmology: theory; Galaxies: clustering; Large scale structure of the Universe

Indexed keywords

COSMOLOGY; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL TESTS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

COMPLEX COEFFICIENTS; COSMIC MICROWAVES BACKGROUND; COSMOLOGY: THEORY; GALAXY CLUSTERING; LARGE SCALE STRUCTURE OF THE UNIVERSE; PHASE-ONLY; PROPERTY; RANDOM WALK; SPHERICAL HARMONIC REPRESENTATIONS; TEMPERATURE MAPS;

RANDOM PROCESSES; COSMOLOGY;

EID: 29144458189     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.09627.x     Document Type: Article

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