How sensitive is the CMB to a single lens?

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Rathaus, Ben ^a   Fialkov, Anastasia ^a   Itzhaki, Nissan ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

CMBR theory; gravitational lensing; non gaussianity

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959952646     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2011/06/033     Document Type: Article

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