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The similarity of the absolute luminosity profiles of Type Ia supernovae (SNIe), as one kind of distance indicator, has led their use in extragalactic astronomy as secondary standard candles. In general, the empirical relationship of SNIa…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-18 Wen Zhao , Larissa Santos

We investigate the potential of using a sample of very high-redshift ($2\lesssim z \lesssim6$) (VHZ) Type Ia supernovae (SNe~Ia) attainable by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) on constraining cosmological parameters. At such high…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-21 Jia Lu , Lifan Wang , Xingzhuo Chen , David Rubin , Saul Perlmutter , Dietrich Baade , Jeremy Mould , Jozsef Vinko , Eniko Regos , Anton M. Koekemoer

We give an overview of the current understanding of Type Ia supernovae relevant for their use as cosmological distance indicators. We present the physical basis to understand their homogeneity of the observed light curves and spectra and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 P. Hoeflich , C. Gerardy , E. Linder , H. Marion

By relaxing the constraint of adiabatic universe used in most cosmological models, we have shown that the new approach provides a better fit to the supernovae Ia redshift data with a single parameter, the Hubble constant $H_0$, than the…

General Physics · Physics 2018-10-31 Rajendra P. Gupta

Over the past decade, supernovae have emerged as some of the most powerful tools for measuring extragalactic distances. A well developed physical understanding of type II supernovae allow them to be used to measure distances independent of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-16 Saul Perlmutter , Brian P. Schmidt

Type Ia supernovae (SNIe) are generally accepted to act as standardisable candles, and their use in cosmology led to the first confirmation of the as yet unexplained accelerated cosmic expansion. Many of the theoretical models to explain…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-31 Bill S. Wright , Baojiu Li

Type Ia supernovae (SNIa) play a central role in constraining the late-time expansion history of the Universe and are directly implicated in current cosmological tensions. Motivated by the possibility of unaccounted redshift-dependent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-28 Seyed Hamidreza Mirpoorian , Meng-Xiang Lin , Levon Pogosian

Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) are considered the most reliable \textit{standard candles} and they have played an invaluable role in cosmology since the discovery of the Universe's accelerated expansion. During the last decades, the SNe Ia…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-12 Maria Giovanna Dainotti , Giada Bargiacchi , Malgorzata Bogdan , Salvatore Capozziello , Shigehiro Nagataki

Recent papers have shown that a small systematic redshift shift ($\Delta z\sim 10^{-5}$) in measurements of type Ia supernovae can cause a significant bias ($\sim$1\%) in the recovery of cosmological parameters. Such a redshift shift could…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 Josh Calcino , Tamara Davis

The evidence for positive cosmological constant $\Lambda$ from Type Ia supernovae is reexamined. Both high redshift supernova teams are found to underestimate the effects of host galaxy extinction. The evidence for an absolute magnitude-…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Michael Rowan-Robinson

We review various cosmological models with a local underdense region (local void) and the averaged models with the backreaction of inhomogeneities, which have been proposed to explain (without assuming a positive cosmological constant) the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-09 Kenji Tomita

The data of type Ia supernovae observed by the High-z SN Search Team and Supernova Cosmology Project are analyzed in inhomogeneous cosmological models with a local void on scales of about 200 Mpc, to derive the best-fit values of model…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Kenji Tomita

Observations of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) reveal correlations between their luminosities and light-curve shapes, and between their spectral sequence and photometric sequence. Assuming SNe Ia do not evolve at different redshifts, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Weidong Li , Alexei V. Filippenko

Type Ia supernovae (SNIa) have been used as approximate standard candles to measure cosmological parameters such as the Hubble constant and the deceleration parameter. These measurements rely on empirical correlations between peak…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nicolas Regnault

Type Ia supernovae (SNe\,Ia) serve as crucial cosmological distance indicators because of their empirical consistency in peak luminosity and characteristic light curve decline rates. These properties facilitate them to be standardized…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-25 Abhinandan Ravi , T. R. Govindarajan , Surajit Kalita

We present observations of 10 type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) between 0.16 < z < 0.62. With previous data from our High-Z Supernova Search Team, this expanded set of 16 high-redshift supernovae and 34 nearby supernovae are used to place…

Supernova measurements have become a key ingredient in current determinations of cosmological parameters. These sources can however be used as standard candles only after correcting their apparent brightness for a number of effects. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Brice Ménard , Martin Kilbinger , Ryan Scranton

We investigate the possibility of testing cosmological models with interaction between matter and energy sector. We assume the standard FRW model while the so called energy conservation condition is interpreted locally in terms of energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Marek Szydlowski , Tomasz Stachowiak , Radoslaw Wojtak

Recent observations of Type 1a supernovae indicating an accelerating universe have once more drawn attention to the possible existence, at the present epoch, of a small positive Lambda-term (cosmological constant). In this paper we review…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Varun Sahni , Alexei Starobinsky

Type 1a supernova magnitudes are used to fit cosmological parameters under the assumption the model will fit the observed redshift dependence. We test this assumption with the Union 2.1 compilation of 580 sources. Several independent tests…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-26 Gopolang M. Mohlabeng , John P. Ralston