Is the evidence for dark energy secure?

General Relativity and Gravitation

Volumn 40, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 269-284

  Sarkar, Subir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cosmic microwave background; Dark energy; Inflation; Large scale structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 39149132084     PISSN: 00017701     EISSN: 15729532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10714-007-0547-7     Document Type: Article

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