Sentences with phrase «observational cosmology»

Measuring the equation of state of dark energy is one of the biggest efforts in observational cosmology today.

«I'd much rather spend my time working on the really important questions observational cosmology has been handing us about dark matter and dark energy.

Unless you've been living under a particularly thick and insulating rock you'll know that in recent months the world of experimental cosmology (what would have previously been called observational cosmology, or just plain old astronomy) has been on tenterhooks waiting to see -LSB-...]

I was presenting a paper on the future of observational cosmology at sub-millimeter and millimeter wavelengths and talking about the need to develop new and larger facilities to make significant advances in some of the fundamental questions related to the formation and evolution of structure.

We plan to further develop this family of methods and use them to studya broad spectrum of astrophysical phenomena in aspects of star formation and in observational cosmology such as a study of large scale structure of the matter distribution in the Universe,» concludes Igor Chilingarian.

«Massive fails» like this one in a nearby galaxy could explain why astronomers rarely see supernovae from the most massive stars, said Christopher Kochanek, professor of astronomy at The Ohio State University and the Ohio Eminent Scholar in Observational Cosmology.

The CMB carries a frozen imprint of the density fluctuations in the early Universe, the study of which, by the observational cosmology community, is intense and sustained.