Nearby Supernova Factory
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The Nearby Supernova Factory (SNfactory) is a collaborative experiment led by
Greg Aldering, designed to collect data on more Type Ia supernovae than have ever been studied in a single project before, and by studying them, to increase understanding of the expanding universe and dark energy
.
The project began as an outgrowth of the
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
, but while the SCP focused on supernovae with redshifts of approximately 1.2, corresponding to a distance of 8.7 billion light years, SNfactory searches for nearby supernovae with redshifts of 0.03 to 0.08, corresponding to a distance of only 400 million to 1.1 billion light years.
SNfactory uses a highly automated "pipeline" in which survey images from
.Results from the project will also be used in refining the planned
Supernova/Acceleration Probe
.
See also
- Supernova Cosmology Project
- Supernova/Acceleration Probe
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