Biases on cosmological parameter estimators from galaxy cluster number counts

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2014, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Penna Lima, M ^a,b   Makler, M ^b   Wuensche, C A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b CENTRO BRASILEIRO DE PESQUISAS FÍSICAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

cluster counts; cosmological parameters from LSS

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902583709     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2014/05/039     Document Type: Article

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