Model-independent cosmological constraints from the CMB

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Vonlanthen, Marc ^a   Räsänen, Syksy ^a,b,c   Durrer, Ruth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

CMBR experiments; CMBR theory; Cosmological parameters from CMBR; Dark energy theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 78449300869     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2010/08/023     Document Type: Article

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