The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: Constraining the evolution of Newton's constant using the growth rate of structure

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Nesseris, Savvas ^a   Blake, Chris ^b   Davis, Tamara ^a,c   Parkinson, David ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

dark energy experiments; dark energy theory; modified gravity

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961242182     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2011/07/037     Document Type: Article

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