Einstein's biggest blunder? High-redshift supernovae and the accelerating universe

被引:11
作者
Filippenko, AV [1 ]
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[1] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Astron, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
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10.1086/324512
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
Nearly 4 years ago, two teams of observational astronomers reported that high-redshift Type Ia supernovae are fainter than expected in a decelerating or freely coasting universe. The radical conclusion that the universe has been accelerating in the past few billion years, possibly because of a nonzero value for Einstein's cosmological constant, has gripped the worlds of astronomy and physics, causing a flurry of new research. Having participated on both teams (but much more closely with one than the other), here I provide a personal, historical account of the story.
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