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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

Journal Title

Journal ISSN

Volume Title

Publisher

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

Description

Keywords

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

Citation

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/92648

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Astrophysical Journal, The

Type

Journal article

Book Title

Entity type

Access Statement

Open Access

License Rights

DOI

10.1086/322348

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