• DOI:10.1038/34124
Corpus ID: 4329577

Discovery of a supernova explosion at half the age of the Universe

@article{Perlmutter1998DiscoveryOA,
  title={Discovery of a supernova explosion at half the age of the Universe},
  author={S. Perlmutter and G. Aldering and M. D. Valle and S. Deustua and R. Ellis and S. Fabbro and A. Fruchter and G. Goldhaber and D. Groom and I. Hook and A. Kim and M. Kim and R. Knop and C. Lidman and R. Mcmahon and P. Nugent and R. Pain and N. Panagia and C. Pennypacker and P. Ruiz-Lapuente and B. Schaefer and N. Walton},
  journal={Nature},
  year={1998},
  volume={391},
  pages={51-54}
}

S. Perlmutter, G. Aldering, +19 authors N. Walton

Published 1998

Physics

Nature

The ultimate fate of the Universe, infinite expansion or a big crunch, can be determined by using the redshifts and distances of very distant supernovae to monitor changes in the expansion rate. We can now find large numbers of these distant supernovae, and measure their redshifts and apparent brightnesses; moreover, recent studies of nearby type Ia supernovae have shown how to determine their intrinsic luminosities—and therefore with their apparent brightnesses obtain their distances. The >50… CONTINUE READING

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