Disks in the sky: A reassessment of the WMAP "cold spot"

Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 69-74

  Zhang, Ray ^a   Huterer, Dragan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmic microwave background; Cosmology

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR SCALE; COLD SPOTS; COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND-COSMOLOGY; GAUSSIAN WEIGHT; GAUSSIANS; MEXICAN HAT WAVELET; TEMPERATURE MAPS; TEMPERATURE PROFILES; WEIGHT FUNCTIONS; WEIGHTING FUNCTIONS;

DISKS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); FUNCTION EVALUATION; MICROWAVES; SCALES (WEIGHING INSTRUMENTS);

COSMOLOGY;

EID: 76349112256     PISSN: 09276505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2009.11.005     Document Type: Article

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