Primordial non-Gaussianity from the covariance of galaxy cluster counts
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Carlos Cunha, Dragan Huterer, and Olivier Doré Department of Physics, University of Michigan, 450 Church Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1040, USA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91109, USA California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA (Received 17 March 2010; revised manuscript received 4 June 2010; published 19 July 2010)
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تاریخ انتشار 2010