A first application of the alcock-Paczynski test to stacked cosmic voids

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 761, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Sutter, P M ^a,b,c,d   Lavaux, Guilhem ^e,f   Wandelt, Benjamin D ^a,b,c,g   Weinberg, David H ^d  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c INSTITUT D'ASTROPHYSIQUE DE PARIS   (France)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^f PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

cosmological parameters; cosmology: observations; large scale structure of universe; methods: data analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870815797     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/761/2/187     Document Type: Article

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