Bayesian Evidence for a cosmological constant using new high-redshift supernova data

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 379, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 169-175

  Serra, Paolo ^a   Heavens, Alan ^b   Melchiorri, Alessandro ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cosmic microwave background; Cosmological parameters; Cosmology: miscellaneous; Distance scale; Large scale structure of Universe

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; EQUATIONS OF STATE; PHANTOMS; SUPERNOVAE;

BAYESIAN EVIDENCE; COSMIC MICROWAVES BACKGROUND; COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANTS; COSMOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; COSMOLOGY: MISCELLANEOUS; DARK ENERGY; DISTANCE SCALE; HIGH-REDSHIFT; LARGE SCALE STRUCTURE OF UNIVERSE; PHANTOMS;

COSMOLOGY;

EID: 34547160170     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11924.x     Document Type: Article

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