Type Ia supernovae and the acceleration of the universe: results from the ESSENCE Supernova Survey

dc.creatorKrisciunas, Kevin
dc.date2008-09-15
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T10:03:12Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T10:03:12Z
dc.descriptionThe ESSENCE project was a six year supernova search carried out with the CTIO 4-m telescope. We also obtained spectra with many of the world's largest ground-based telescopes and observed some of our SNe with the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope. We achieved our goal of discovering over 200 Type Ia SNe in the redshift range 0.2 to 0.8. With these data we determined the cosmic equation of state parameter to +/- 10 percent. The data are consistent with a geometrically flat universe whose dark energy is equivalent to Einstein's cosmological constant.
dc.description4 pages, 1 figure
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0809.2612
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0809.2612
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/169199
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titleType Ia supernovae and the acceleration of the universe: results from the ESSENCE Supernova Survey
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