Robust constraint on cosmic textures from the cosmic microwave background

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 24, 2012, Pages

  Feeney, Stephen M ^a   Johnson, Matthew C ^b   Mortlock, Daniel J ^c   Peiris, Hiranya V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN METHODS; COLD SPOTS; CONFIDENCE MODEL; COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUNDS; COSMOLOGICAL MODELS; CURRENT DATA; EARLY UNIVERSE; TOPOLOGICAL DEFECT; WILKINSON MICROWAVE ANISOTROPY PROBE;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; TEXTURES;

COSMOLOGY;

EID: 84862179420     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.241301     Document Type: Article

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