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Regarding the Deceleration of the Universe

Paul J. Steinhardt

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/9603072

Abstract

A proposed strategy for determining the deceleration parameter entails measuring the deviation from a linear (Hubble) distance-red shift relation. However, even at moderate red shifts, z > 0.2, the deviation does not depend on q0 alone, but also on the equation-of-state of the universe.

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