Frequentist comparison of CMB local extrema statistics in the five-year WMAP data with two anisotropic cosmological models

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 401, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 2379-2387

  Hou, Zhen ^a,b,c   Banday, A J ^b,d   Gorski K M ^e,f,g   Groeneboom, N E ^h   Eriksen, H K ^h  

^a CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTROPHYSIK   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d IRAP   (France)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^h UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cosmic microwave background; Methods: data analysis

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COSMOLOGY; MODULATION; TEMPERATURE;

COSMIC MICROWAVES BACKGROUND; COSMOLOGICAL MODELING; FREQUENTIST; LOCAL EXTREMUM; METHODS. DATA ANALYSIS; SMALL SCALE; TEMPERATURE ANISOTROPY; TWO POINT STATISTICS; TWO-POINT CORRELATION FUNCTION; WILKINSON MICROWAVE ANISOTROPY PROBE;

STATISTICS;

EID: 74549213939     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.15866.x     Document Type: Article

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