Lookback time and Chandra constrains on cosmological parameters

Romanian Reports in Physics

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 879-889

  Tonoiu, D ^a   Caramete, A ^a   Popa, L A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SPACE SCIENCES   (Romania)

Author keywords

Chandra gas fraction; Cosmological parameters; Dark energy equation of state; Lookback time; Monte Carlo simulations; WMAP measurements; XCDM cosmological model

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054716547     PISSN: 12211451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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