Sentences with phrase «supernova search team»
Two teams of astronomers — the High - z Supernova Search Team, led by Adam Riess and Brian Schmidt, and the Supernova Cosmology Project, led by Saul Perlmutter — publish findings that, instead of slowing down, the expansion of the universe is accelerating.
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The team, several of whom were part of the High - z Supernova Search Team that co-discovered the accelerating expansion of the universe in 1998, refined the universe's current expansion rate by developing innovative techniques that improved the precision of distance measurements to faraway galaxies.
Two teams of astronomers — the High - z Supernova Search Team, led by Adam Riess and Brian Schmidt, and the Supernova Cosmology Project, led by Saul...
That other team was the High - Z Supernova Search team led by Brian Schmidt of the Australian National University.
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She also helped develop the Irvine - Michigan - Brookhaven detector to look for proton decay and neutrinos; detectors, hardware and software of the MACHO project to look for dark matter; detectors and software for the CLEMENTINE mission to map the lunar surface; the Gamma - Ray Optical Counterpart Search Experiment for observing gamma - ray bursts; and was a key member of the team that discovered the burst of neutrinos from Supernova 1987A.