The Berkeley-AAO Distant Supernova Search

1991 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. J. Couch ◽  
S. Perlmutter ◽  
H. J. M. Newburg ◽  
C. Pennypacker ◽  
G. Goldhaber ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mass Density ◽  
Type Ia Supernovae ◽  
Standard Candle ◽  
Type Ia ◽  
Ia Supernovae ◽  
The Universe

AbstractA search for Type Ia supernovae at cosmological distances is being undertaken in an attempt to exploit their standard candle property to constrain the mass density of the universe. We describe the rationale for such a program, the observational approach and strategy taken, and the progress made to date. The science that is being generated by the project in additional to supernova detection is also discussed briefly.

scholarly journals Model-independent cosmic acceleration and redshift-dependent intrinsic luminosity in type-Ia supernovae

2019 ◽  
Vol 625 ◽  
pp. A15 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Tutusaus ◽  
B. Lamine ◽  
A. Blanchard
Keyword(s):  
Spline Interpolation ◽  
High Redshift ◽  
Cosmic Acceleration ◽  
Expansion Rate ◽  
Type Ia Supernovae ◽  
Type Ia ◽  
Model Independent ◽  
Ia Supernovae ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Intrinsic Luminosity

Context. The cosmological concordance model (ΛCDM) is the current standard model in cosmology thanks to its ability to reproduce the observations. The first observational evidence for this model appeared roughly 20 years ago from the type-Ia supernovae (SNIa) Hubble diagram from two different groups. However, there has been some debate in the literature concerning the statistical treatment of SNIa, and their stature as proof of cosmic acceleration. Aims. In this paper we relax the standard assumption that SNIa intrinsic luminosity is independent of redshift, and examine whether it may have an impact on our cosmological knowledge and more precisely on the accelerated nature of the expansion of the universe. Methods. To maximise the scope of this study, we do not specify a given cosmological model, but we reconstruct the expansion rate of the universe through a cubic spline interpolation fitting the observations of the different cosmological probes: SNIa, baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO), and the high-redshift information from the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Results. We show that when SNIa intrinsic luminosity is not allowed to vary as a function of redshift, cosmic acceleration is definitely proven in a model-independent approach. However, allowing for redshift dependence, a nonaccelerated reconstruction of the expansion rate is able to fit, at the same level of ΛCDM, the combination of SNIa and BAO data, both treating the BAO standard ruler rd as a free parameter (not entering on the physics governing the BAO), and adding the recently published prior from CMB observations. We further extend the analysis by including the CMB data. In this case we also consider a third way to combine the different probes by explicitly computing rd from the physics of the early universe, and we show that a nonaccelerated reconstruction is able to nicely fit this combination of low- and high-redshift data. We also check that this reconstruction is compatible with the latest measurements of the growth rate of matter perturbations. We finally show that the value of the Hubble constant (H0) predicted by this reconstruction is in tension with model-independent measurements. Conclusions. We present a model-independent reconstruction of a nonaccelerated expansion rate of the universe that is able to fit all the main background cosmological probes nicely. However, the predicted value of H0 is in tension with recent direct measurements. Our analysis points out that a final reliable and consensual value for H0 is critical to definitively prove cosmic acceleration in a model-independent way.

scholarly journals RECONSTRUCTION OF 5D COSMOLOGICAL MODELS FROM RECENT OBSERVATIONS

2007 ◽  
Vol 16 (10) ◽  
pp. 1573-1579
Author(s):  
CHENGWU ZHANG ◽  
LIXIN XU ◽  
YONGLI PING ◽  
HONGYA LIU
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Dark Energy ◽  
Equation Of State ◽  
Cosmological Solution ◽  
Type Ia Supernovae ◽  
Shift Parameter ◽  
Type Ia ◽  
Ia Supernovae ◽  
Best Fit ◽  
The Universe

We use a parameterized equation of state (EOS) of dark energy to a 5D Ricci-flat cosmological solution and suppose the universe contains two major components: dark matter and dark energy. Using the recent observational datasets: the latest 182 type Ia Supernovae Gold data, the three-year WMAP CMB shift parameter and the SDSS baryon acoustic peak, we obtain the best fit values of the EOS and two major components' evolution. We find that the best fit EOS crosses -1 in the near past where z ≃ 0.07, the present best fit value of wx(0) < -1 and for this model, the universe experiences the acceleration at about z ≃ 0.5.

scholarly journals Supernovae, the Accelerating Cosmos, and Dark Energy

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (H16) ◽  
pp. 17-17
Author(s):  
Brian Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Dark Energy ◽  
Accelerating Universe ◽  
Type Ia Supernovae ◽  
Current State ◽  
Cosmological Application ◽  
Type Ia ◽  
Ia Supernovae ◽  
The Universe

AbstractType Ia supernovae remain one of Astronomy's most precise tools for measuring distances in the Universe. I describe the cosmological application of these stellar explosions, and chronicle how they were used to discover an accelerating Universe in 1998 - an observation which is most simply explained if more than 70% of the Universe is made up of some previously undetected form of ‘Dark Energy’. Over the intervening 13 years, a variety of experiments have been completed, and even more proposed to better constrain the source of the acceleration. I review the range of experiments, describing the current state of our understanding of the observed acceleration, and speculate about future progress in understanding Dark Energy.

scholarly journals Testing the isotropy of the Universe with type Ia supernovae

2011 ◽  
Vol 83 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Campanelli ◽  
P. Cea ◽  
G. L. Fogli ◽  
A. Marrone
Keyword(s):  
Type Ia Supernovae ◽  
Type Ia ◽  
Ia Supernovae ◽  
The Universe

scholarly journals Type Ia supernovae: Non-standard candles of the universe

2011 ◽  
Vol 55 (6) ◽  
pp. 497-504 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. I. Bogomazov ◽  
A. V. Tutukov
Keyword(s):  
Type Ia Supernovae ◽  
Type Ia ◽  
Ia Supernovae ◽  
The Universe

scholarly journals Effect of Cosmic Mean Metallicity on the Supernovae Cosmology

2021 ◽  
Vol 162 (6) ◽  
pp. 249
Author(s):  
Gexing Li ◽  
Zhihong Li
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Evolution ◽  
Cosmological Parameters ◽  
Type Ia Supernovae ◽  
Delay Times ◽  
Standard Candle ◽  
Type Ia ◽  
Ia Supernovae

Abstract The initial metallicity of Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) progenitor that is increasing with the cosmological chemical evolution will directly lead to a decrease of the 56Ni formed during the nucleosynthesis and then a varying standard candle. The variation may seriously affect our understanding of the evolving universe. In this work, we derived the relationships between 56Ni yield and metallicity in different progenitor channels. The evolution of the cosmic mean metallicity (CMM) was used to estimate the initial metallicity of progenitors. The effect of the delay times from the birth of progenitors to their explosion was also considered. The corrections of SNe Ia luminosity were estimated and the influences of the different progenitor channels and CMM evolution rates were examined. Several important cosmological parameters were updated according to the luminosity corrections.

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