Weak lensing of the CMB: Cumulants of the probability distribution function

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 66, Issue 8, 2002, Pages

  Kesden, Michael ^a   Cooray, Asantha ^a   Kamionkowski, Marc ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; COSMOS; GRAVITY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; SPACE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 4243413726     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.66.083007     Document Type: Article

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