Testing homogeneity with the fossil record of galaxies

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Heavens, Alan F ^a   Jimenez, Raul ^b   Maartens, Roy ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gravity; physics of the early universe

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053528497     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2011/09/035     Document Type: Article

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