Type Ia Supernovae: Their Origin and Possible Applications in Cosmology

Details Type Ia Supernovae: Their Origin and Possible Applications in Cosmology Type Ia Supernovae: Their Origin and Possible Applications in Cosmology

1997-06-02

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9706007v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

7 page LaTeX, 5 PostScript figures, to appear in Science, Vol. 276 (1997)

Scientific paper

10.1126/science.276.5317.1378

Spectroscopic and photometric evidence indicates that Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are the thermonuclear explosions of accreting white dwarfs. However, the progenitor binary systems and hydrodynamical models for SNe Ia are still controversial. The relatively uniform light curves and spectral evolution of SNe Ia have led to their use as a standard candle for determining cosmological parameters, such as the Hubble constant, the density parameter, and the cosmological constant. Recent progress includes the calibration of the absolute maximum brightness of SNe Ia with the Hubble Space Telescope, the reduction of the dispersion in the Hubble diagram through the use of the relation between the light curve shape and the maximum brightness of SNe Ia, and the discovery of many SNe Ia with high red shifts.

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