Cosmological constant, violation of cosmological isotropy and CMB

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Urban, Federico R ^a   Zhitnitsky, Ariel R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cosmological parameters from CMBR; Dark energy theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350673989     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2009/09/018     Document Type: Article

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