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Overview of Techniques and Earlier Cosmology Results: 1998-2007 | ||||||||||||
For an overview of Supernova Cosmology research, see Supernovae, Dark Energy, and the Accelerating Universe, S. Perlmutter, Physics Today, April 2003 PDF | ||||||||||||
Figure 6 Hubble Diagram for SCP low-extinction subsample PDF | ||||||||||||
The history of cosmic expansion, as measured by the high-redshift supernovae, assuming flat cosmic geometry.PDF |
Observed magnitude versus redshift for well measured distant and (in the inset) nearby type Ia supernovae. PDF |
Click on the top left segment of this Poster from the January 1998 Meeting of the American Astronomical Society (i.e. the segment that looks like this) for an explanation of the technique developed by the Supernova Cosmology Project to find "batches" of newly-exploded very distant supernova, all at one time, all "on schedule." |
Figure 8 Confidence regions for Omega_Mass vs Omega_Lambda PDF | |||||||||
Figure 8 with results from CMB and galaxy cluster data added PDF |
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Before-and-after pictures (and Hubble Space Telescope picture) of a high-redshift supernovae discovered by the Supernova Cosmology Project in March, 1998. JPEG PDF | Figure 12 Joint measurements of Omega_Mass and w assuming a flat universe and w constant in time. PDF More Figures |
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Movie clip: What We Can 'See' in a Supernova. Explanation of the video |
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Click on the image of this poster (from the January 1998 AAS Meeting) to examine in detail |
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Measurements of Omega and Lambda from 42 High-Redshift Supernovae, Perlmutter, S., et al., ApJ, 517, 565 (1999). Color Figures for Slides Supplementary Materials: Numerical Tables | |||||||||||
LBL Report LBL-42230: Presentation at the January 1998 Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Washington, DC. (referenced in Perlmutter et al., B.A.A.S., v. 29, no. 5, p. 1351, 1997) Poster to view on web Preprint in Postscript Format Preprint in PDF format | |||||||||||
Discovery of a Supernova Explosion at Half the Age of the Universe and its Cosmological Implications Perlmutter et al., Nature, 1 January 1998 Postscript PDF | |||||||||||
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