The cold spot as a large void: Lensing effect on cmb two and three point correlation functions

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Masina, Isabella ^a   Notari, Alessio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

CMBR theory; Gravitational lensing; Non gaussianity

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350691929     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2009/07/035     Document Type: Article

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