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The primordial curvature fluctuation spectrum is reconstructed by the maximum likelihood reconstruction method using the five-year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe data of the cosmic microwave background temperature anisotropy. We apply…
Auto- and cross-spectral density functions for dynamic {random} fields and power are derived. These are based on first- and second-order Pad\'{e} approximants of correlation functions expanded in terms of spectral moments. The second-order…
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