Testing the copernican principle via cosmological observations

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Bolejko, Krzysztof ^a,b   Wyithe, J Stuart B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b NICOLAUS COPERNICUS ASTRONOMICAL CENTER   (Poland)

Author keywords

Dark energy theory; Supernova type Ia

Indexed keywords

EID: 65649093337     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2009/02/020     Document Type: Article

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