# Cosmological and astrophysical neutrino mass measurements

@article{Abazajian2011CosmologicalAA,
title={Cosmological and astrophysical neutrino mass measurements},
author={Kevork Abazajian and Erminia Calabrese and Asantha Cooray and Francesco de Bernardis and S. Dodelson and Alexander Friedland and George M. Fuller and Steen Hannestad and Brian G. Keating and Eric V. Linder and Cecilia Lunardini and Alessandro Melchiorri and R. Miquel and E.Pierpaoli and Jonathan R. Pritchard and Paolo Serra and Masahiro Takada and Yvonne Y. Y. Wong},
journal={Astroparticle Physics},
year={2011},
volume={35},
pages={177-184}
}
Cosmological and astrophysical measurements provide powerful constraints on neutrino masses complementary to those from accelerators and reactors. Here we provide a guide to these different probes, for each explaining its physical basis, underlying assumptions, current and future reach.

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