Comparison of recent SnIa datasets

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Sanchez, J C Bueno ^a   Nesseris, S ^b   Perivolaropoulos, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

dark energy experiments; dark energy theory; supernova type Ia standard candles

Indexed keywords

EID: 85126614743     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2009/11/029     Document Type: Article

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