B-mode detection with an extended planck mission

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Efstathiou, G ^a   Gratton, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CMBR experiments; CMBR theory; Inflation

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350643673     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2009/06/011     Document Type: Article

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