Inflation and the scale dependent spectral index: Prospects and strategies

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Adshead, Peter ^a   Easther, Richard ^a   Pritchard, Jonathan ^b   Loeb, Abraham ^b  

^a Yale University   (United States)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

cosmological parameters from CMBR; cosmological parameters from LSS; inflation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952591530     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2011/02/021     Document Type: Article

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