Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1999-09-03
Phys.Rept.333:13-31,2000
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
25 page review, 3 figures, to be published in the David Schramm Memorial Volume of Physics Reports, latex file; elsart
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0370-1573(00)00013-2
The Hubble constant, which measures the expansion rate, together with the total energy density of the Universe, sets the size of the observable Universe, its age, and its radius of curvature. Excellent progress has been made recently toward the measurement of the Hubble constant: a number of different methods for measuring distances have been developed and refined, and a primary project of the Hubble Space Telescope has been the accurate calibration of this difficult-to-measure parameter. The recent progress in these measurements is summarized, and areas where further work is needed are discussed. Currently, for a wide range of possible cosmological models, the Universe appears to have a kinematic age less than about 14 +/- 2 billion years. Combined with current estimates of stellar ages, the results favor a low-matter-density universe. They are consistent with either an open universe, or a flat universe with a non-zero value of the cosmological constant.
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