Large scale alignment anomalies of CMB anisotropies: A new test for residuals applied to WMAP 5yr maps

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Gruppuso, Alessandro ^a,b   Burigana, Carlo ^a,c  

^a OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

CMBR experiments; CMBR theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350641881     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2009/08/004     Document Type: Article

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