A three-dimensional object point process for detection of cosmic filaments

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 459-477

  Stoica, Radu S ^b   Martínez, Vicent J ^a   Saar, Enn ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIV LILLE   (France)

^c TARTU OBSERVATORY   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Bisous model; Cosmology; Filaments; Large scale structure; Object point processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548120246     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: 14679876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2007.00587.x     Document Type: Review

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