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

Nature

Volumn 391, Issue 6662, 1998, Pages 51-54

  Perlmutter, S ^a,b   Aldering, G ^a   Della Valle, M ^c   Deustua, S ^a,d   Ellis, R S ^e   Fabbro, S ^a,f,g   Fruchter, A ^h   Goldhaber, G ^a,b   Groom, D E ^a   Hook, I M ^a,i   Kim, A G ^a,j   Kim, M Y ^a   Knop, R A ^a   Lidman, C ^k   McMahon, R G ^e   Nugent, P ^a   Pain, R ^a,f   Panagia, N ^h   Pennypacker, C R ^a,d   Ruiz Lapuente, P ^l   Schaefer, B ^m   Walton, N ⁿ   more..

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^g OBSERVATOIRE DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^h STScI   (United States)

ⁱ EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^j l'alimentation et l'Environnement   (France)

^k EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^l UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^m Yale University   (United States)

ⁿ ISAAC NEWTON GROUP OF TELESCOPES   (Spain)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMOS; PHOTOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTRUM;

EID: 0031911883     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/34124     Document Type: Article

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