The Use of Supernovae Light Curves for Testing the Expansion Hypothesis and Other Cosmological Relations.
Abstract
The expanding universe hypothesis was put to an observational test by using light curves for 37 supernovae. A value of H = 92/km/sec/Mpc was obtained for the Hubble constant.
- Publication:
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Ph.D. Thesis
- Pub Date:
- 1974
- Bibcode:
- 1974PhDT.........7R
- Keywords:
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- Astronomy;
- Cosmology;
- Luminous Intensity;
- Supernovae;
- Stellar Luminosity;
- Stellar Mass Ejection;
- Astrophysics