The cold spot as a large void: Rees-Sciama effect on CMB power spectrum and bispectrum

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Masina, Isabella ^a   Notari, Alessio ^a  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

CMBR theory; Superclusters and voids

Indexed keywords

EID: 65649129666     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2009/02/019     Document Type: Article

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