Type Ia supernova standard candle

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Phillips 1993 width-luminosity relation: Type Ia SN brighter at peak decline more slowly; calibrated as standard candle to ~5%. Riess-Schmidt-Perlmutter 1998 used Type Ia at z>0.5 to discover accelerating expansion (dark energy); Nobel…

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