A hydrodynamical approach to CMB μ-distortion from primordial perturbations

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Pajer, Enrico ^a   Zaldarriaga, Matias ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

CMBR theory; cosmological parameters from CMBR; cosmological perturbation theory; non gaussianity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874669145     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2013/02/036     Document Type: Article

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