Cosmology with hypervelocity stars

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Loeb, Abraham ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cosmic flows; dark energy theory; galaxy dynamics; gravity

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955611685     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2011/04/023     Document Type: Article

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