Limits on non-Gaussianities from WMAP data

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn , Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Creminelli, Paolo ^a   Nicolis, Alberto ^a   Senatore, Leonardo ^b,c   Tegmark, Max ^c   Zaldarriaga, Matias ^a,d  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CMBR experiments; CMBR theory; Inflation

Indexed keywords

EID: 42749103033     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2006/05/004     Document Type: Article

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