CMB optical depth measurements: Past, present, future

New Astronomy Reviews

Volumn 50, Issue 1-3 SPEC. ISS., 2006, Pages 184-190

  Keating, Brian ^a   Miller, Nathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmic microwave background; Cosmology; Observation; Polarization

Indexed keywords

EID: 32544443488     PISSN: 13876473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.newar.2005.11.020     Document Type: Review

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