Browsing by Subject "Distance"

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    • Distance 

      Pirie, Gordon (Elsevier, 2009)
      The English language has long acknowledged and required some preconception of distance, but it has only been considered explicitly as a key element of human geography for half a century. The distances of greatest consequence ...

    • The effect of weak lensing on distance estimates from supernovae 

      Smith, Mathew (American Astronomical Society, 2013)
      Using a sample of 608 Type Ia supernovae from the SDSS-II and BOSS surveys, combined with a sample of foreground galaxies from SDSS-II, we estimate the weak lensing convergence for each supernova line of sight. We find ...