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Article Contents

TITLE PAGE

1.INTRODUCTION

2.HOMOGENEITY

2.1.Light Curves

2.2.Spectra

2.3.Peculiar Supernovae

2.4.Absolute Magnitudes

2.5.Reddening and Extinction

3.ABSOLUTE MAGNITUDE

3.1.Historical Galactic Supernovae

3.2.SNe Ia in Nearby Galaxies

3.3.Sne Ia in the Virgo Cluster

3.4.Thermal Emission

3.5.Nickel-Cobalt Radioactivity

3.6.Summary of Calibrations

4.PROSPECTS FOR COSMOLOGY

4.1.Peculiar Velocities and Streaming Motions

4.2.The Hubble Constant

4.3.Testing the Nature of the Redshift

4.4.The Deceleration Parameter

5.CONCLUSIONS

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