Probing the primordial power spectra with inflationary priors

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Kawasaki, Masahiro ^a   Sekiguchi, Toyokazu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cosmological parameters from CMBR; Inflation; Physics of the early universe

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649223487     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2010/02/013     Document Type: Article

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