Type II Supernovae as Standardized Candles

Details Type II Supernovae as Standardized Candles Type II Supernovae as Standardized Candles

2002-01-17

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0201279v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

9 pages, 3 figures, 1 table, accepted by ApJL

Scientific paper

10.1086/339676

We present evidence for a correlation between expansion velocities of the ejecta of Type II plateau supernovae and their bolometric luminosities during the plateau phase. This correlation permits one to standardize the candles and decrease the scatter in the Hubble diagram from ~1 mag to a level of 0.4 and 0.3 mag in the V and I bands, respectively. When we restrict the sample to the eight objects which are well in the Hubble flow (cz > 3,000 km/s) the scatter drops even further to only 0.2 mag (or 9% in distance), which is comparable to the precision yielded by Type Ia supernovae and far better than the ``expanding photosphere method'' applied to Type II supernovae. Using SN 1987A to calibrate the Hubble diagrams we get Ho=55+/-12.

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