The Best Standard Candle for Cosmology
The residual Hubble diagram for supernovae observed in the H band (green), compared with previous NIR samples (blue). The deviation of each measurement from the overall mean is plotted against redshift, z, which indicates distance.
Credit:International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
About the Image
Id: | geminiann12012b |
Type: | Chart |
Release date: | Sept. 7, 2012, 4:16 p.m. |
Related announcements: | geminiann12012 |
Size: | 715 x 634 px |
About the Object
Category: | Illustrations |