High Precision Cosmology with CMB Data

In this thesis we investigate the two cosmic epochs of inflation and recombination, through their imprints on the temperature and polarization anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background radiation. To probe the early universe we develop a map-based maximum-likelihood estimator to measure the amp...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Farhang, Marzieh
Other Authors: Bond, J. Richard
Language:en_ca
Published: 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/35817