Why is the cosmic microwave background fluctuation level 10-5?

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 499, Issue 2 PART I, 1998, Pages 526-532

  Tegmark, Max ^a   Rees, Martin J ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cosmology: theory; Large scale structure of universe

Indexed keywords

EID: 30344450896     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/305673     Document Type: Article

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