High-z Supernova Search Team
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The High-z Supernova Search Team was an international cosmology group which used Type Ia Supernovae to chart the expansion of the universe. The team was formed in 1994 by Brian P. Schmidt, then a post-doctoral research associate at Harvard University, and Nicholas Suntzeff, a staff astronomer at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. The team expanded to roughly 20 astronomers located in the United States, Europe, Australia, and Chile. They used the 4m Blanco telescope of CTIO to discover Type Ia Supernovae out to redshifts of z=0.75. The discoveries were verified with spectra taken at the telescopes of the Keck Observatory, the European Southern Observatory, and the CFHT.
In 1998 the team was the first to publish evidence that the universe was accelerating (Riess et al. 1998, AJ, 116, 1009). The team was managed by Brian P. Schmidt of the Mount Stromlo Observatory, which part of the Australian National University. The team later spawned Project ESSENCE led by Christopher Stubbs of Harvard University and the Higher-z Team led by Adam Riess of Johns Hopkins University and Space Telescope Science Institute.
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- Mount Stromlo Observatory and the Australian National University
- CTIO
- Nicholas Suntzeff
- Robert Schommer
- R. Chris Smith
- Las Campanas Observatory
- Mark Phillips
- Pontifica Universidad de Chile
- Alejandro Clocchiatti
- European Southern Observatory
- Bruno Leibundgut
- Jason Spyromilio
- University of Hawaii
- John Tonry
- University of California, Berkeley
- Alexei Filippenko
- Weidong Li
- Space Telescope Science Institute
- University of Washington
- Craig Hogan
- Harvard University
- Robert Kirshner
- Christopher Stubbs
- Saurabh Jha
- Peter Challis
- Notre Dame University
- Peter Garnavich
- Steven Holland
- National Optical Astronomy Observatory
- Thomas Matheson
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