A Calculation of Cosmic Variance in Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy
Astrophysics
2008-02-03 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We present a theoretical calculation of the variance of the CMB anisotropy power spectrum caused by gravitational waves based on quantum field theory in an inflationary cosmology.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9501088,
title = {A Calculation of Cosmic Variance in Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy},
author = {Kin-Wang Ng and A. D. Speliotopoulos},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9501088},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
8 pages, written in RevTeX. An error in the calculation was found and corrected. The conclusion of the paper changed