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  2. K correction - Wikipedia

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    I.E. the adjustment to the standard relationship between absolute and apparent magnitude required to correct for the redshift effect. [4] Here, D L is the luminosity distance measured in parsecs . The exact nature of the calculation that needs to be applied in order to perform a K correction depends upon the type of filter used to make the ...

  3. Tolman surface brightness test - Wikipedia

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    The Tolman surface brightness test is one out of six cosmological tests that were conceived in the 1930s to check the viability of and compare new cosmological models. Tolman's test compares the surface brightness of galaxies as a function of their redshift (measured as z ).

  4. List of cosmological computation software - Wikipedia

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    This List of Cosmological Computation Software catalogs the tools and programs used by scientists in cosmological research.. In the past few decades, the accelerating technological evolution has profoundly enhanced astronomical instrumentation, enabling more precise observations and expanding the breadth and depth of data collection by several orders of magnitude.

  5. Redshift - Wikipedia

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    The cosmological redshift is can be interpreted as an accumulation of infinitesimal Doppler shifts along the trajectory of the light. [30] There are several websites for calculating various times and distances from redshift, as the precise calculations require numerical integrals for most values of the parameters. [31] [32] [33] [34]

  6. Distance measure - Wikipedia

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    Distance measures are used in physical cosmology to give a natural notion of the distance between two objects or events in the universe.They are often used to tie some observable quantity (such as the luminosity of a distant quasar, the redshift of a distant galaxy, or the angular size of the acoustic peaks in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) power spectrum) to another quantity that is ...

  7. Redshift quantization - Wikipedia

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    In standard inflationary cosmological models, the redshift of cosmological bodies is ascribed to the expansion of the universe, with greater redshift indicating greater cosmic distance from the Earth (see Hubble's law). This is referred to as cosmological redshift and is one of the main pieces of evidence for the Big Bang. Quantized redshifts ...

  8. Recessional velocity - Wikipedia

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    One application of Hubble's law is to estimate distances to galaxies based on measurements of their recessional velocities. However, for relatively nearby galaxies the peculiar velocity can be comparable to or larger than the recessional velocity, in which case Hubble's law does not give a good estimate of an object's distance based on its ...

  9. Friedmann equations - Wikipedia

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    The cosmological principle implies that the metric of the universe must be of the form = where ds 3 2 is a three-dimensional metric that must be one of (a) flat space, (b) a sphere of constant positive curvature or (c) a hyperbolic space with constant negative curvature. This metric is called the Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker (FLRW ...