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This project has recently been completed at the telescopes of the
European Northern Observatory (ENO)
at La Palma (Canary Islands, Spain) The two main objectives of the ITP project were:
As explained in the detailed description of the
research goals, objective (1) aimed to
fill the gap between the nearby SNeIa sample (as exemplified by the
Calan-Tololo survey: Hamuy et al. 1996), used for SNeIa luminosity
calibration, and the distant sample (z above 0.4) used to measure the
cosmological parameters
and
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The goal of objective (2)
was to provide empirical material that, when compared with the predictions
of current physical models of SNeIa, could constrain them enough to
discriminate among the different alternatives and thus allow a significant
step forward in the way to the complete understanding of those explosions.
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