Detecting cosmic strings in the CMB with the Canny algorithm

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Amsel, Stephen ^a   Berger, Joshua ^b   Brandenberger, Robert H ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

CMBR theory; physics of the early universe; string theory and cosmology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879064173     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2008/04/015     Document Type: Article

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