Overcoming the circular problem for gamma-ray bursts in cosmological global-fitting analysis

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 680, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 92-99

  Li, Hong ^a   Xia, Jun Qing ^b   Liu, Jie ^b   Zhao, Gong Bo ^c   Fan, Zu Hui ^a   Zhang, Xinmin ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS   (China)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cosmological parameters; Cosmology: observations; Gamma rays: bursts

Indexed keywords

EID: 46249109997     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/529582     Document Type: Article

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