The Farthest Known Supernova: Support for an Accelerating Universe and a Glimpse of the Epoch of Deceleration

Date

2001

Authors

Riess, Adam
Nugent, Peter
Tonry, John
Schmidt, Brian
Dickinson, Mark
Gilliland, Ron
Thompson, Rodger
Budavari, Tamas
Casertano, Stefano
Evans, Aaron

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IOP Publishing

Abstract

We present photometric observations of an apparent Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) at a redshift of ∼1.7, the farthest SN observed to date. The supernova, SN 1997ff, was discovered in a repeat observation by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) of the Hubble Deep

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Keywords: Cosmology: observations; Supernovae: general on-line material: color figure

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Astrophysical Journal, The

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Open Access

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