Supernovae, Dark Energy, and the Accelerating Universe
Abstract
Using very distant supernovae as standard candles, one can trace the history of cosmic expansion and try to find out what's currently speeding it up.
- Publication:
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Physics Today
- Pub Date:
- April 2003
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.1580050
- Bibcode:
- 2003PhT....56d..53P
- Keywords:
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- supernovae;
- dark energy;
- cosmology;
- brightness;
- red shift;
- missing mass;
- measurement;
- design of experiments;
- scheduling;
- artificial satellites;
- infrared astronomy