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Supernovae as a Cosmological Tool

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

Virginia Trimble
Virginia Trimble*
Affiliation:
Astronomy Program, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, Dept. of Physics, Univ. of California, Irvine, CA 92717 USA

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Cosmology can mean many different things to different people. Sandage (1970) once described it as “the search for two numbers” (Ho and qo). At the other end of the spectrum, it may comprise almost all the interesting bits of astronomy and physics that bear on how the universe got to be the way it is. Supernovae can probe many of these bits because they are bright, have been going on for a long time, and contribute directly to the chemical and, perhaps, dynamical evolution of structure in the universe.

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Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 104: Early Evolution of the Universe and Its Present Structure , 1983 , pp. 227 - 229
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Copyright © Reidel 1983 

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