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  2. Angular diameter distance - Wikipedia

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    The angular size redshift relation for a Lambda cosmology, with on the vertical scale megaparsecs. The angular size redshift relation describes the relation between the angular size observed on the sky of an object of given physical size, and the object's redshift from Earth (which is related to its distance, , from Earth

  3. Distance measure - Wikipedia

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    Distance measures are used in physical cosmology to give a natural notion of the distance between two objects or events in the universe.They are often used to tie some observable quantity (such as the luminosity of a distant quasar, the redshift of a distant galaxy, or the angular size of the acoustic peaks in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) power spectrum) to another quantity that is ...

  4. Angular distance - Wikipedia

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    Angular distance or angular separation is the measure of the angle between the orientation of two straight lines, rays, or vectors in three-dimensional space, or the central angle subtended by the radii through two points on a sphere.

  5. Standard ruler - Wikipedia

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    Because space is expanding, there is no one, unique way of measuring the distance between source and observer. The distance measured by a standard ruler is what is known as the angular diameter distance. Standard candles measure another type of distance called the luminosity distance.

  6. Angular diameter - Wikipedia

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    Thus, the angular diameter of Earth's orbit around the Sun as viewed from a distance of 1 pc is 2″, as 1 AU is the mean radius of Earth's orbit. The angular diameter of the Sun, from a distance of one light-year, is 0.03″, and that of Earth 0.0003″. The angular diameter 0.03″ of the Sun given above is approximately the same as that of a ...

  7. Milliradian - Wikipedia

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    Subtension refers to the length between two points on a target, and is usually given in either centimeters, millimeters or inches. Since an mrad is an angular measurement, the subtension covered by a given angle (angular distance or angular diameter) increases with viewing distance to the target. For instance the same angle of 0.1 mrad will ...

  8. Template:Solar radius calculator - Wikipedia

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    All radii, once calculated, are divided by 6.957 × 10 8 to convert from m to R ☉.. AD radius determined from angular diameter and distance =, (/) =, = D is multiplied by 3.0857 × 10 19 to convert from kpc to m

  9. Horizon problem - Wikipedia

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    We can determine both the approximate angular diameter of the universe and the physical size of the particle horizon that had existed at this time. The angular diameter distance , in terms of redshift z {\displaystyle z} , is described by d A ( z ) = r ( z ) / ( 1 + z ) {\displaystyle d_{A}(z)=r(z)/(1+z)} .