Indications about the Shape of the Universe from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe Data

Ralf Aurich; Sven Lustig; Frank Steiner; Holger L Then

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.021301

Indications about the Shape of the Universe from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe Data

Ralf Aurich, Sven Lustig, Frank Steiner, Holger L Then

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It is shown that the recent observations of NASA's Explorer mission,“Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe,” hint that ourUniverse may possess a non-trivial topology. As an example we discuss the Picard space which is stretched out into an infinitely long horn butwith finite volume.

Original language	English
Article number	021301
Number of pages	4
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	94
Issue number	2
Early online date	18 Jan 2005
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.021301
Publication status	Published - 21 Jan 2005

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Observational cosmology
Background radiations
Mathematical and relativistic aspects of cosmology

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