Cosmic chronometers: Constraining the equation of state of dark energy. I: H(z) measurements

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Stern, Daniel ^a   Jimenez, Raul ^b   Verde, Licia ^b   Kamionkowski, Marc ^c   Stanford, S Adam ^d,e  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Dark energy experiments; Galaxy clusters; Galaxy surveys

Indexed keywords

EID: 76249123128     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2010/02/008     Document Type: Article

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