Direction dependence of the power spectrum and its effect on the cosmic microwave background radiation

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Rath, Pranati K ^a   Mudholkar, Tanmay ^a   Jain, Pankaj ^a   Aluri, Pavan K ^b   Panda, Sukanta ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH MOHALI   (India)

Author keywords

CMBR theory; ination; physics of the early universe

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875844168     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2013/04/007     Document Type: Article

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