A new cosmological distance measure using active galactic nuclei

Astrophysical Journal Letters

Volumn 740, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Watson, D ^a   Denney, K D ^a   Vestergaard, M ^a   Davis, T M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

cosmological parameters; cosmology: observations; distance scale; galaxies: Seyfert; quasars: general

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053978490     PISSN: 20418205     EISSN: 20418213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/740/2/L49     Document Type: Article

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