Advances in Astronomy
Volume 2010 (2010), Article ID 380507, 28 pages
doi:10.1155/2010/380507
Review Article

Cosmic Strings and Their Induced Non-Gaussianities in the Cosmic Microwave Background

Christophe Ringeval

Institute of Mathematics and Physics, Centre for Cosmology, Particle Physics and Phenomenology, Louvain University, 2 Chemin du Cyclotron, 348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Received 15 January 2010; Accepted 27 May 2010

Academic Editor: Eiichiro Komatsu

Copyright © 2010 Christophe Ringeval. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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