Thinking outside the box: Effects of modes larger than the survey on matter power spectrum covariance

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  De Putter, Roland ^a,b   Wagner, Christian ^a   Mena, Olga ^b   Verde, Licia ^a   Percival, Will J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cosmological simulations; dark matter simulations; galaxy clustering; power spectrum

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860139062     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/04/019     Document Type: Review

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