Useful Links / Further Reading
| The Nobel Laureates |
| Saul Perlmutter, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA |
| Brian P. Schmidt, Australian National University, Weston Creek, Australia |
| Adam G. Riess, Johns Hopkins University and Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA |
| Popular science articles |
| Perlmutter, S. (2003) Supernovae, Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe, Physics Today, vol. 56,no. 4. |
| Krauss, L.M., Turner, M.S. (2004) A Cosmic Conundrum, Scientific American, www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=a-cosmic-conundrum |
| Riess, A.G., Turner, M.S. (2008) The Expanding Universe: From Slowdown to Speedup, Scientific American, www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=expanding-universe-slows-then-speeds |
| Appell, D. (2008) Dark Forces at Work, Scientific American, www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=dark-forces-at-work |
| Interviews |
| Heard, M. (2001) Interviews with Australian scientists. Dr Brian Schmidt Astronomer. The Australian Academy of Sciences, www.science.org.au/scientists/interviews/s/bs.html |
| Appell, D. (2008) Discovering a Dark Universe: A Q&A with Saul Perlmutter, Scientific American, www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=discovering-a-dark-universe |
| Website |
| Runaway Universe, www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/universe/ |
| Books |
| Livio, M. (2000) The Accelerating Universe, Wiley, New York. |
| Krauss, L. (2000) Quintessence, Basic Books, New York. |
| Goldsmith, D. (2000) The Runaway Universe, Perseus Books, Cambridge, MA. |
| Kirshner, R.P. (2002) The Extravagant Universe, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ. |
| Scientific articles |
| Riess, A., et al. (1998) Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant, Astronomical Journal, 116, 1009-1038. |
| Perlmutter, S., et al. (1999) Measurement of Ω and Λ from 42 High-Redshift Supernovae, Astrophysical Journal, 517, 565-586. |
| Perlmutter, S. and Schmidt, B.P. (2003) Measuring Cosmology with Supernovae, Lecture Notes in Physics, http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0303428. |
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