Model selection applied to reconstruction of the Primordial Power Spectrum

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Vázquez, J Alberto ^a,b   Bridges, M ^a,b   Hobson, M P ^b   Lasenby, A N ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cosmological parameters from CMBR; ination; power spectrum

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863457988     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/06/006     Document Type: Article

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