Mimicking dark matter through a non-minimal gravitational coupling with matter

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Bertolami, O ^a   Pramos, J ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Dark matter theory; Modified gravity; Rotation curves of galaxies

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950194508     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2010/03/009     Document Type: Article

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