Cosmological Time Dilation using Type Ia Supernovae as Clocks

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Nov 1996

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Nuclear Physics B Proceedings Supplements, v. 51, p. 123-127.

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Although there is little doubt at present that the redshift of distant galaxies is due to an expansion of the universe, we present in this paper a direct confirmation for the cosmological expansion. This work is based on the first results from a systematic search for high redshift Type Ia supernovae. We discovered over twenty seven SNe, before or at maximum light. In this paper we report on the first seven of these, with redshift z = 0.35 - 0.46. Type Ia SNe are known to be a homogeneous group of SNe, to first order, with very similar light curves, spectra and peak luminosities. In this paper we report that the light curves we observe are all broadened (time dilated) as expected from the expanding universe hypothesis. Small variations from the expected 1 + z broadening of the light curve widths can be attributed to a width-brightness correlation that has been observed for nearby SNe (z < 0.1). We show in this paper the first clear observation of the cosmological time dilation for macroscopic objects.

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