Standardization of type Ia supernovae
Abstract
Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) have been intensively investigated due to its great homogeneity and high luminosity, which make it possible to use them as standardizable candles for the determination of cosmological parameters. In 2011, the physics Nobel prize was awarded for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae. This is a pedagogical article, aimed at those starting their study of that subject, in which we dwell on some topics related to the analysis of SNe Ia and their use in luminosity distance estimators. Here we investigate their spectral properties and light curve standardization, paying careful attention to the fundamental quantities directly related to the SNe Ia observables. Finally, we describe our own step-by-step implementation of a classical light curve fitter, the stretch, applying it to real data from the Carnegie Supernova Project.
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@article{arxiv.1411.3596,
title = {Standardization of type Ia supernovae},
author = {Rodrigo C. V. Coelho and Maurício O. Calvão and Ribamar R. R. Reis and Beatriz B. Siffert},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.3596},
year = {2016}
}
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25 pages, 17 figures, 2 tables