Features in the primordial power spectrum? A frequentist analysis

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Hamann, Jan ^a,b   Shafieloo, Arman ^c   Souradeep, Tarun ^d  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d INTER UNIVERSITY CENTRE FOR ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS   (India)

Author keywords

CMBR theory; Cosmological parameters from CMBR; Initial conditions and eternal universe

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951617270     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2010/04/010     Document Type: Article

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