Cosmological non-Gaussian signature detection: Comparing performance of different statistical tests

Eurasip Journal on Applied Signal Processing

Volumn 2005, Issue 15, 2005, Pages 2470-2485

  Jin, J ^a,f   Starck, J L ^b,g   Donoho, D L ^c,h   Aghanim, N ^d,e,i   Forni, O ^d,i  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^f PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g DIF   (France)

^h NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

Cosmological microwave background; Cosmology; Curvelet; Multiscale method; Non gaussianity detection; Wavelet

Indexed keywords

COSMOLOGICAL MICROWAVE BACKGROUND; COSMOLOGY; CURVELET; MULTISCALE METHOD; NON-GAUSSIANITY DETECTION; WAVELET;

COSMIC RAYS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVES; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL METHODS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 31544473485     PISSN: 11108657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/ASP.2005.2470     Document Type: Article

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