The primordial non-Gaussianity of local type (fNLlocal) in the WMAP 5-year data: The length distribution of CMB skeleton

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 407, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 2141-2156

  Hou, Zhen ^a,b,c   Banday, A J ^b,d   Górski, Krzysztof M ^e,f,g   Elsner, Franz ^b   Wandelt, Benjamin D ^h,i  

^a CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTROPHYSIK   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d IRAP   (France)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^h University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmic background radiation; Methods: data analysis

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DATA HANDLING; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; INTERPOLATION; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM;

COSMIC BACKGROUND RADIATION; GAUSSIANS; GOODNESS OF FIT; LENGTH DISTRIBUTIONS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; METHODS. DATA ANALYSIS; NONGAUSSIANITY; POINT-SOURCES; PRIMORDIAL NON-GAUSSIANITY; WILKINSON MICROWAVE ANISOTROPY PROBE;

COSMOLOGY;

EID: 80051820903     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.17098.x     Document Type: Article

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