Precise estimation of cosmological parameters using a more accurate likelihood function

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 105, Issue 25, 2010, Pages

  Sato, Masanori ^a,b   Ichiki, Kiyotomo ^a   Takeuchi, Tsutomu T ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE REGION; COSMOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; DARK ENERGY EQUATION; DATA SETS; FUNCTIONAL FORMS; GAUSSIAN COPULA; GAUSSIANS; LENSING SURVEY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS;

COSMIC RAY MEASUREMENT; COSMOLOGY; EQUATIONS OF STATE;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 78650492661     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.251301     Document Type: Article

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