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A Classic Thesis Style Cover Page The handle http://hdl.handle.net/1887/137440 holds various files of this Leiden University dissertation. Author: Peirone, S. Title: Probing gravity at cosmic scales Issue Date: 2020-10-06 BIBLIOGRAPHY [1] Y. Akrami et al. “Planck 2018 results. I. Overview and the cosmological legacy of Planck.” In: (2018). arXiv: 1807.06205 [astro-ph.CO]. [2] N. Aghanim et al. “Planck 2018 results. VI. Cosmological pa- rameters.” In: (2018). arXiv: 1807.06209 [astro-ph.CO]. [3] Adam G. Riess, Stefano Casertano, Wenlong Yuan, Lucas M. Macri, and Dan Scolnic. “Large Magellanic Cloud Cepheid Standards Provide a 1% Foundation for the Determination of the Hubble Constant and Stronger Evidence for Physics beyond LCDM.” In: Astrophys. J. 876.1 (2019), p. 85. doi: 10.3847/1538- 4357/ab1422. arXiv: 1903.07603 [astro-ph.CO]. [4] Wendy L. Freedman et al. “The Carnegie-Chicago Hubble Pro- gram. VIII. 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