Type IIP Supernovae as Cosmological Probes: A SEAM Distance to SN 1999em

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2004-10-06

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0410153v1

Astrophys.J. 616 (2004) L91-L94

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

10 pages, 3 color figures, ApJ Letters, in press

Scientific paper

10.1086/426506

Due to their intrinsic brightness, supernovae make excellent cosmological probes. We describe the SEAM method for obtaining distances to Type IIP supernovae (SNe IIP) and present a distance to SN 1999em for which a Cepheid distance exists. Our models give results consistent with the Cepheid distance, even though we have not attempted to tune the underlying hydrodynamical model, we have simply chosen the best fits. This is in contradistinction to the expanding photosphere method (EPM) which yields a distance to SN 1999em that is 50% smaller than the Cepheid distance. We emphasize the differences between SEAM and EPM. We show that the dilution factors used in the EPM analysis were systematically too small at later epochs. We also show that the EPM blackbody assumption is suspect. Since SNe IIP are visible to redshifts as high as z less than about 6, with the JWST, SEAM may be a valuable probe of the early universe.

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