Observational features of the early and late-time universe

The first half of this Thesis investigates the observational features of dark energy dominated cosmologies. Using semi-analytic expressions for the Cold Dark IVlatter (CDM) halo mass function , we make predictions for halo abundance in models where t.he dark energy scalar field is coupled to CDM. &q...

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Main Author: Tarrant, Ewan R. M.
Published: University of Nottingham 2013
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.601764