The luminosity distance equation in Friedmann cosmology
Abstract
We propose a new form of the luminosity distance equation (and of the apparent distance equation) for Friedmann cosmological models, which appear to have advantages over the usual equation in clarity, convenience, and computational accuracy.
- Publication:
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American Journal of Physics
- Pub Date:
- September 1977
- DOI:
- 10.1119/1.11065
- Bibcode:
- 1977AmJPh..45..869T
- Keywords:
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- 95.90.+v;
- 98.80.-k;
- Historical astronomy and archaeoastronomy;
- and other topics in fundamental astronomy and astrophysics;
- instrumentation techniques and astronomical observations;
- Cosmology