An MCMC determination of the primordial helium abundance

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Aver, Erik ^a   Olive, Keith A ^a,b   Skillman, Evan D ^a,b  

^a University of Minnesota ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

big bang nucleosynthesis; dwarfs galaxies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860142715     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/04/004     Document Type: Article

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