Tension in the void: Cosmic rulers strain inhomogeneous cosmologies

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Zumalacárregui, Miguel ^a,c   García Bellido, Juan ^b   Ruiz Lapuente, Pilar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

baryon acoustic oscillations; dark energy experiments; dark energy theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868217521     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2012/10/009     Document Type: Article

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