Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-08-04
Astrophys.J. 613 (2004) L21-L24
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
12 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal Letters
Scientific paper
10.1086/424871
We describe a procedure for accurately determining luminosity distances to Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) without knowledge of redshift. This procedure, which may be used as an extension of any of the various distance determination methods currently in use, is based on marginalizing over redshift, removing the requirement of knowing $z$ a priori. We demonstrate that the Hubble diagram scatter of distances measured with this technique is approximately equal to that of distances derived from conventional redshift-specific methods for a set of 60 nearby SNe Ia. This indicates that accurate distances for cosmological SNe Ia may be determined without the requirement of spectroscopic redshifts, which are typically the limiting factor for the number of SNe that modern surveys can collect. Removing this limitation would greatly increase the number of SNe for which current and future SN surveys will be able to accurately measure distance. The method may also be able to be used for high-$z$ SNe Ia to determine cosmological density parameters without redshift information.
Barris Brian J.
Tonry John L.
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