Unveiling hidden patterns in CMB anisotropy maps

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 75, Issue 8, 2007, Pages

  Ghosh, Tuhin ^a   Hajian, Amir ^b   Souradeep, Tarun ^a  

^a INTER UNIVERSITY CENTRE FOR ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS   (India)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 34247558138     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.75.083007     Document Type: Article

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