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Robert Quimby

Researcher at California Institute of Technology

Publications -  62
Citations -  22503

Robert Quimby is an academic researcher from California Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Supernova & Galaxy. The author has an hindex of 38, co-authored 62 publications receiving 20835 citations. Previous affiliations of Robert Quimby include University of Texas at Austin & Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

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New Constraints on ΩM, ΩΛ, and w from an Independent Set of 11 High-Redshift Supernovae Observed with the Hubble Space Telescope*

TL;DR: In this paper, a set of high-redshift supernovae were used to confirm previous supernova evidence for an accelerating universe, and the supernova results were combined with independent flat-universe measurements of the mass density from CMB and galaxy redshift distortion data, they provided a measurement of $w=-1.05^{+0.15}-0.09$ if w is assumed to be constant in time.
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Sn 2006gy : Discovery of the most luminous supernova ever recorded, powered by the death of an extremely massive star like η carinae

TL;DR: The Type IIn supernova (SN) 2006gy is the most luminous supernova known to date as discussed by the authors, with a peak visual magnitude of about -22, its very slow rise to maximum took ~70 days, and it stayed brighter than -21 mag for about 100 days.
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Overview of the nearby supernova factory

TL;DR: The Nearby Supernova Factory (SNfactory) as mentioned in this paper is an international experiment designed to lay the foundation for the next generation of cosmology experiments (such as CFHTLS, wP, SNAP and LSST) which will measure the expansion history of the Universe using Type Ia supernovae.