Dark energy: The cosmological challenge of the millennium

Current Science

Volumn 88, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1057-1067

  Padmanabhan, T ^a  

^a INTER UNIVERSITY CENTRE FOR ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS   (India)

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