Cosmic Chandlery with Thermonuclear Supernovae

[摘要] Thermonuclear (Type Ia) supernovae are bright stellar explosions, the light curves of which can be calibrated to allow for use as "standard candles" for measuring cosmological distances. Contemporary research investigates how the brightness of an event may be influenced by properties of the progenitor system that follow from properties of the host galaxy such as composition and age. The goals are to better understand systematic effects and to assess the intrinsic scatter in the brightness, thereby reducing uncertainties in cosmological studies. We present the results from ensembles of simulations in the single-degenerate paradigm addressing the influence of age and metallicity on the brightness of an event and compare our results to observed variations of brightness that correlate with properties of the host galaxy. We also present results from "hybrid" progenitor models that incorporate recent advances in stellar evolution.

[发布机构] Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook; NY; 11794-3800, United States^1;Institute for Advanced Computational Science, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook; NY; 11794-5250, United States^2;XCP-2, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos; NM; 87545, United States^3;Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa; AL; 35487-0324, United States^4

[关键词] Cosmological distances;Host galaxies;Light curves;Metallicities;Stellar evolutions;Stellar explosion;Systematic effects