Optimising Boltzmann codes for the PLANCK era

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Hamann, Jan ^a   Balbi, Amedeo ^b,c   Lesgourgues, Julien ^a,d,e   Quercellini, Claudia ^b  

^a LAPTH   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^c INFN SEZIONE DI ROMA TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^d EPFL   (Switzerland)

^e CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

CMBR theory; Cosmological parameters from CMBR

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350681883     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2009/04/011     Document Type: Article

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