Jeremy Mould, PASA, 17 (1), 45.
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The Hubble Constant
Jeremy Mould 1
19 July 1999
1 Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Australian National University,
Mount Stromlo Observatory, Weston, ACT 2611
jrm@mso.anu.edu.au
Abstract:
With the completion of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Key Project on the Extragalactic Distance Scale, it is interesting to form the dimensionless quantity H0t0 by multiplying the Hubble Constant by the age of the Universe. In a matter dominated decelerating Universe with a density exceeding 0.26 of the critical value, H0t0 < 1; in an accelerating Universe with the same = 0.26, but dominated by vacuum energy with 1 - , H0t0 1. If the first globular clusters formed 109 years after the Big Bang, then with 95% confidence H0t0 = 1.0 0.3. The classical Einstein de Sitter cosmological model has H0t0 = 2/3.
Keywords: cosmology: distance scale - galaxies: formation
- Introduction
- The results of the Key Project
- The age of the Universe
- Constraints on Decelerating Cosmologies
- Sharpening the constraint
- Acknowledgements
- References
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