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astro-ph.CO2015★ 17 cited
The Kullback-Leibler Divergence as an Estimator of the Statistical Properties of CMB Maps
Assaf Ben-David, Hao Liu, Andrew D. Jackson
The identification of unsubtracted foreground residuals in the cosmic microwave background maps on large scales is of crucial importance for the analysis of polarization signals. T…
astro-ph.CO2012★ 4 cited
Searching for Stringy Topologies in the Cosmic Microwave Background
Assaf Ben-David, Ben Rathaus, Nissan Itzhaki
We consider a universe with a non-classical stringy topology that has fixed points. We concentrate on the simplest example, an orbifold point, and study its observable imprints on…