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20 April 2024

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Improved Standardization of Type II-P Supernovae: Application to an Expanded Sample
Dovi Poznanski ; Nathaniel Butler ; Alexei V. Filippenko ; Mohan Ganeshalingam ; Weidong Li ; Joshua S. Bloom ; Ryan Chornock ; Ryan J. Foley ; Peter E. Nugent ; Jeffrey M. Silverman ; S. Bradley Cenko ; Elinor L. Gates ; Douglas C. Leonard ; Adam A. Miller ; Maryam Modjaz ; Frank J. D. Serduke ; Nathan Smith ; Brandon J. Swift ; Diane S. Wong ;
Date:	27 Oct 2008
Abstract:	In the epoch of precise and accurate cosmology, cross-confirmation using a variety of cosmographic methods is paramount to circumvent systematic uncertainties. Owing to progenitor histories and explosion physics differing from those of Type Ia SNe (SNe Ia), Type II-plateau supernovae (SNe II-P) are unlikely to be affected by evolution in the same way. Based on a new analysis of 17 SNe II-P, and on an improved methodology, we find that SNe II-P are good standardizable candles, almost comparable to SNe Ia. We derive a tight Hubble diagram with dispersion of 10% in distance, using the simple correlation between luminosity and photospheric velocity introduced by Hamuy & Pinto 2002. We show that the descendent method of Nugent et al. 2006 can be further simplified and that the correction for dust extinction has low statistical impact. We find that our SN sample favors, on average, a very steep dust law with total to selective extinction R_V<2. Such an extinction law has been recently inferred for many SNe Ia. Our results indicate that a distance measurement can be obtained with a single spectrum of a SNe II-P during the plateau phase combined with sparse photometric measurements.
Source:	arXiv, 0810.4923
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