Angelica Costa

works in theoretical astrophysics and cosmology. Angelica was at Berkeley from September 1993 as a graduate student from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Angelica graduated in 1996 and has taken a post doctral position at Princeton. A link to her Princeton home page

Papers generated here as a graduate student:

astro-ph/9510109 [abs, ps] :

Title: Can the lack of symmetry in the COBE/DMR maps constrain the topology of the universe?
Author(s): Angelica de Oliveira-Costa, George F. Smoot, Alexei A. Starobinsky
Comments: 19 pages, postscript, 3 figures included,
published Astrophysical Journal (1996) 486:457-461

Constraining topology with the CMB [ps]

de Oliveira-Costa, Smoot & Starobinsky 1996. Proceedings from "XXXIst Recontres de Moriond: Future CMB missions, Ed F. Bouchet.

astro-ph/9412003 [abs, ps] :

Title: Constraints on the Topology of the Universe from the 2-Year COBE Data
Author(s): Angelica de Oliveira-Costa, George F. Smoot
Comments: 15 pages, including 4 figures, postscript, published Astrophysical Journal Lett (1995) 448, 447

astro-ph/95xxx [ ps ] :

Title: Does COBE rule out a toroidal Universe?
Author(s): Angelica de Oliveira-Costa, George F. Smoot
Comments: 15 pages, including 4 figures, postscript, published Nuclear Physics B, (1995) 299-302

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