A beginner's guide to the theory of CMB temperature and polarization power spectra in the line-of-sight formalism

Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 151-166

  Lin, Yen Ting ^a,c,d   Wandelt, Benjamin D ^a,b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b United States of America   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^e NCSA Faculty   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmic microwave background; Cosmology; Polarization

Indexed keywords

COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND; COSMOLOGY; TENSOR PERTURBATIONS;

ANISOTROPY; COSMIC RAYS; MICROWAVES; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PHOTONS; POLARIZATION; SCATTERING; TENSORS;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 32844456950     PISSN: 09276505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2005.12.002     Document Type: Article

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