Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
Dec 2001
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001aas...199.8402r&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, 199th AAS Meeting, #84.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 33, p.1427
Mathematics
Logic
Scientific paper
Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are powerful cosmological distance indicators and have been used for measuring cosmological parameters such as the Hubble constant, H0, and the mass density Ω m and dark energy density Ω Λ of the universe. These measurements rely on empirical correlations between absolute peak luminosities and other observables, like the postmaximum decline rate, and the color at maximum. Since the total number of well observed nearby Hubble flow SNe Ia is still small, these correlations are not yet fully characterized. In the Spring of 1999 the Supernova Cosmology Project undertook a nearby SN Ia search in collaboration with groups around the world. This campaign was aimed at providing an independent set of high quality light curves and spectra, to further study SN Ia properties, and fill the Hubble diagram at low redshift. 37 SNe were discovered, of which 19 were SNe Ia near or before maximum light, in the redshift range z=0.002 -- 0.15. These supernovae were followed-up photometrically and spectroscopically, using 20 different telescopes with apertures from 1-m to 10-m. We present the results of the very successful photometric follow-up. An average of 10 points was collected for each SN Ia in the B, V, R and I bands. In addition, we were able to obtain 5 well measured U-lightcurves. With this dataset, we are studying the correlations between the magnitude at maximum, the decline rate and the color at maximum. These systematic studies play a key role in the cosmological measurements using high redshift SNe Ia.
Aldering Greg
Blanc Guillaume
Conley Alex
Dahlen Tomas
Deustua Susana
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