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For several years Perlmutter's SCP collaboration had been banking on type Ia supernovae being standard candles.
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Richard Panek, Scientific American, 14 Nov. 2023
For the local universe, most rely on various standard candles—certain types of supernovae and other astrophysical objects that possess a known, scarcely varying intrinsic brightness, allowing their distances and motions with respect to us to be more easily ascertained.
—Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 11 May 2023
For an object to serve as a standard candle, astronomers must know its inherent brightness, or luminosity.
—Lyndie Chiou, Quanta Magazine, 8 Feb. 2023
Wendy Freedman, an astronomer at the University of Chicago, uses a certain class of red giant stars as her preferred standard candle.
—Daniel Leonard, Scientific American, 25 Jan. 2022
Next, the Cepheids are used to calibrate the distances to Type Ia supernovas — even brighter (though rarer) standard candles that can be seen in faraway galaxies.
—Quanta Magazine, 25 Oct. 2017
Red giants shining at that theoretical limit can thus become standard candles.
—Leila Sloman, Scientific American, 29 July 2019
White dwarfs at the Chandrasekhar limit are thought to be more or less identical, which is why Type Ia supernovas were considered to be such great standard candles.
—Quanta Magazine, 31 July 2017
By finding the very brightest red giants in a distant galaxy—the ones that toe this theoretical limit—the team could use them as standard candles to calculate distances and its own H0.
—Joshua Sokol, Science | AAAS, 19 July 2019
Richard Panek, Scientific American, 14 Nov. 2023
For the local universe, most rely on various standard candles—certain types of supernovae and other astrophysical objects that possess a known, scarcely varying intrinsic brightness, allowing their distances and motions with respect to us to be more easily ascertained.
—Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 11 May 2023
For an object to serve as a standard candle, astronomers must know its inherent brightness, or luminosity.
—Lyndie Chiou, Quanta Magazine, 8 Feb. 2023
Wendy Freedman, an astronomer at the University of Chicago, uses a certain class of red giant stars as her preferred standard candle.
—Daniel Leonard, Scientific American, 25 Jan. 2022
Next, the Cepheids are used to calibrate the distances to Type Ia supernovas — even brighter (though rarer) standard candles that can be seen in faraway galaxies.
—Quanta Magazine, 25 Oct. 2017
Red giants shining at that theoretical limit can thus become standard candles.
—Leila Sloman, Scientific American, 29 July 2019
White dwarfs at the Chandrasekhar limit are thought to be more or less identical, which is why Type Ia supernovas were considered to be such great standard candles.
—Quanta Magazine, 31 July 2017
By finding the very brightest red giants in a distant galaxy—the ones that toe this theoretical limit—the team could use them as standard candles to calculate distances and its own H0.
—Joshua Sokol, Science | AAAS, 19 July 2019
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“Standard candle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/standard%20candle. Accessed 24 Apr. 2024.
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