Anomalous fluctuations in observations of Q0957+561 A,B: Smoking gun of a cosmic string?

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 422, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 477-482

  Schild, R ^a   Masnyak, S ^b   Hnatyk, B I ^b   Zhdanov, V I ^b  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b TARAS SHEVCHENKO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KYIV   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Cosmology dark matter; Cosmology: miscellaneous; Elementary particles; Galaxies: quasars: individual: Q0957+561; Gravitational lensing

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DEMODULATION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; GALAXIES; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LENSES; OBSERVATORIES;

COSMIC STRING; COSMOLOGY DARK MATTER; GRAVITATIONAL LENSING; QUASARS; SMOKING GUN;

COSMIC RAYS;

EID: 3342954844     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20040274     Document Type: Article

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