The cosmic triangle: Revealing the state of the universe

Science

Volumn 284, Issue 5419, 1999, Pages 1481-1488

  Bahcall, Neta A ^a   Ostriker, Jeremiah P ^a   Perlmutter, Saul ^b   Steinhardt, Paul J ^c  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1126/science.284.5419.1481     Document Type: Review

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131. We thank R. Caldwell, R. Cen, X. Fan, G. Huey, P. J. E. Peebles, L Wang, and members of the 5CP team for their contributions and collaborations on work described here. Supported by NSF grant AST93-15368 (N.A.B., Princeton); D.S. Department of Energy (DOE) grant DE-FG02-91ER40671 (P.J.S., Princeton); the Physics Division, E. O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory of the U.S. DOE under contract DE-AC03-76SF000098; and the NSF's Center for Particle Astrophysics, University of California, Berkeley, under grant ADT-88909616 (S.P.).