Type II-P supernovae as standardised candles: improvements using near infrared data

Details Type II-P supernovae as standardised candles: improvements using near infrared data Type II-P supernovae as standardised candles: improvements using near infrared data

2009-12-16

arxiv.org/abs/0912.3107v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

6 pages, 1 figure, 1 table, accepted for publication in MNRAS Letters

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We present the first near infrared Hubble diagram for type II-P supernovae to further explore their value as distance indicators. We use a modified version of the standardised candle method which relies on the tight correlation between the absolute magnitudes of type II-P supernovae and their expansion velocities during the plateau phase. Although our sample contains only 12 II-P supernovae and they are necessarily local (z < 0.02), we demonstrate using near infrared JHK photometry that it may be possible to reduce the scatter in the Hubble diagram to 0.1-0.15 magnitudes. While this is potentially similar to the dispersion seen for type Ia supernovae, we caution that this needs to be confirmed with a larger sample of II-P supernovae in the Hubble flow.

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