What do we really know about dark energy?

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1957, 2011, Pages 5102-5114

  Durrer, Ruth ^a  

^a DIF   (France)

Author keywords

Cosmological observations; Dark energy; Dark matter

Indexed keywords

MICROWAVE ACOUSTICS; MICROWAVE OSCILLATORS;

ACOUSTIC OSCILLATION; COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND ANISOTROPIES; COSMOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS; DARK ENERGY; DARK MATTER; RED SHIFT;

COSMOLOGY;

EID: 83755181491     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2011.0285     Document Type: Article

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