Studies of dark energy with x-ray observatories

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 7179-7183

  Vikhlinin, Alexey ^a  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmology; Galaxy clusters; X ray astronomy

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; COSMIC RADIATION; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; COSMOS; DARKNESS; ENERGY; GEOMETRY; GROWTH; HEATING; MASS; MEASUREMENT; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; X RAY;

EID: 77952130338     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0914905107     Document Type: Review

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