The hubble constant

Living Reviews in Relativity

Volumn 18, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Jackson, Neal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cosmology; Hubble constant

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942531922     PISSN: 23673613     EISSN: 14338351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/lrr-2015-2     Document Type: Review

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