Is modified gravity required by observations? An empirical consistency test of dark energy models

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Wang, Sheng ^a,b   Hui, Lam ^b   May, Morgan ^a   Haiman, Zoltán ^b  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

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EID: 34548745882     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.76.063503     Document Type: Article

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