Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Mar 1993
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993apj...405l...5b&link_type=abstract
Astrophysical Journal, Part 2 - Letters (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 405, no. 1, p. L5-L8.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
62
Blue Stars, Distance, Interstellar Extinction, Standards, Stellar Magnitude, Supernovae, Dispersion, Hubble Constant, Stellar Color, Stellar Spectra
Scientific paper
The distribution of absolute blue magnitudes among Type Ia supernovae (SNs Ia) is studied. Supernovae were used with well determined apparent magnitudes at maximum light and parent galaxies with relative distances determined by the Tully-Fisher or Dn - sigma techniques. The mean absolute blue magnitude is given and the observational dispersion is only sigma(MB) 0.36, comparable to the expected combined errors in distance, apparent magnitude, and extinction. The mean (B-V) color at maximum light is 0.03 +/- 0.04, with a dispersion sigma(B-V) = 0.20. The Cepheid-based distance to IC 4182, the parent galaxy of the normal and unextinguished Type Ia SN 1937C, leads to a Hubble constant of H(0) + 51 +/- 12 km/s Mpc. The existence of a few SNs Ia that appear to have been reddened and dimmed by dust in their parent galaxies does not seriously compromise the use of SNs Ia as distance indicators.
Branch David
Miller Douglas L.
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