TY - JOUR

T1 - Hubble Law

T2 - Measure and Interpretation

AU - Paturel, Georges

AU - Teerikorpi, Pekka

AU - Baryshev, Yurij

PY - 2017/9/1

Y1 - 2017/9/1

N2 - We have had the chance to live through a fascinating revolution in measuring the fundamental empirical cosmological Hubble law. The key progress is analysed: (1) improvement of observational means (ground-based radio and optical observations, space missions); (2) understanding of the biases that affect both distant and local determinations of the Hubble constant; (3) new theoretical and observational results. These circumstances encourage us to take a critical look at some facts and ideas related to the cosmological red-shift. This is important because we are probably on the eve of a new understanding of our Universe, heralded by the need to interpret some cosmological key observations in terms of unknown processes and substances.

AB - We have had the chance to live through a fascinating revolution in measuring the fundamental empirical cosmological Hubble law. The key progress is analysed: (1) improvement of observational means (ground-based radio and optical observations, space missions); (2) understanding of the biases that affect both distant and local determinations of the Hubble constant; (3) new theoretical and observational results. These circumstances encourage us to take a critical look at some facts and ideas related to the cosmological red-shift. This is important because we are probably on the eve of a new understanding of our Universe, heralded by the need to interpret some cosmological key observations in terms of unknown processes and substances.

KW - Cosmology

KW - Distance scale

KW - Hubble constant

KW - Space expansion

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85020413444&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1007/s10701-017-0093-4

DO - 10.1007/s10701-017-0093-4

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85020413444

VL - 47

SP - 1208

EP - 1228

JO - Foundations of Physics

JF - Foundations of Physics

SN - 0015-9018

IS - 9

ER -