Type II Supernovae as Standardized Candles

By M. Hamuy, P. Pinto. 2002

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We present evidence for a correlation between expansion velocities of the ejecta of Type II plateau supernovae and their bolometric luminosities during the plateau phase. This correlation permits one to standardize the candles and decrease the scatter in the Hubble diagram from ~1 mag to levels of 0.4 and 0.3 mag in the V and I bands, respectively. When we restrict the sample to the eight objects that are well in the Hubble flow (cz > 3000 km s-1), the scatter drops even further, to only 0.2 mag (or 9% in distance), which is comparable to the precision yielded by Type Ia supernovae and is far better than the "expanding photosphere method" applied to Type II supernovae. Using SN 1987A to calibrate the Hubble diagrams, we get H0 = 55 ± 12.

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• A Study of the Type II-Plateau Supernova 1999gi and the Distance to its Host Galaxy, NGC 3184 (2002, methodology): “(5) Use stellar evolution models to predict the final preexplosion luminosity and effective temperature of stars spanning the range of initial 14 Hamuy & Pinto (2002) refine this technique, showing that a measurement of the plateau magnitude and the ejecta expansion velocity potentially yields a…”
• Photometric and spectroscopic evolution of the Type IIP supernova SN 2004et (2006, background): “Using equation (1) of Nugent et al. (2006), with the fitting parameters for low-redshift SNe IIP and the observed expansion velocity at day 50 v50 = 4122 ± 170 km sec−1, we estimate the distance to SN 2004et as 5.7+0.3−0.3 Mpc. Based on all the estimates, an average distance of 5.6 Mpc is assumed fo”
• The Carnegie Supernova Project: The Low‐Redshift Survey (2005, methodology): “The data for the Type II SNe will be used to establish and refine precise techniques for measuring luminosity distances employing the Expanding Photosphere Method (Eastman et al. 1996; Schmidt et al. 1994; Hamuy et al. 2001; Leonard et al. 2002; Dessart & Hillier 2005) or the Standardized Candle Met”
• The great escape: how exoplanets and smaller bodies desert dying stars (2011, background): “1 of Hamuy & Pinto (2002), a typical range is v = 103–104 km s−1; let us then assume the lower bound v = 103 km s−1.”
• Observed and Physical Properties of Core-Collapse Supernovae (2002, result): “The correlation between MV50 and v50 is quite evident and proves similar to that previously reported by Hamuy & Pinto (2002) from a smaller sample of SNe II.”
• SN 2008S: An electron-capture SN from a super-AGB progenitor? (2009, methodology): “Sahu et al. (2006) used a “standard candle method” (SCM) for SN 2004et, based on the correlation between the expansion velociti s of the SN II-P ejecta and the bolometric luminosities duringthe plateau phase (Hamuy & Pinto 2002; Nugent et al. 2006).”
• TOWARD CHARACTERIZATION OF THE TYPE IIP SUPERNOVA PROGENITOR POPULATION: A STATISTICAL SAMPLE OF LIGHT CURVES FROM Pan-STARRS1 (2014, methodology): “Several authors have argued for a single parameter source of variation among SNe IIP light curves (Hamuy 2003; Poznanski 2013), particularly with respect to the luminosity– velocity relation applied in the standardizable candle method (Hamuy & Pinto 2002; Olivares 2008; D’Andrea et al. 2010).”
• Observational probes of cosmic acceleration (2012, background): “…peak, show a correlation between expansion velocity (measured via spectral lines) and the bolometric luminosity of the plateau phase, making them potentially useful as standardized candles with ∼ 0.2 mag luminosity scatter (Hamuy and Pinto 2002; see Maguire et al. 2010 for a recent discussion).”
• CHARACTERIZING THE V-BAND LIGHT-CURVES OF HYDROGEN-RICH TYPE II SUPERNOVAE (2014, methodology): “SNe II (or specifically SNe IIP) have long been discussed as complementary (to SNe Ia) distance indicators, with a number of techniques being employed to standardize their luminosities (e.g. the expanding photosphere method, EPM: Kirshner & Kwan 1974; Eastman et al. 1996; Dessart & Hillier 2005; Des”
• Optical and near infrared coverage of SN 2004et: physical parameters and comparison with other type IIP supernovae (2009, background): “They investigated the standard candle relationship of type IIP SNe proposed by Hamuy & Pinto (2002) and showed that the correlation betwen the plateau luminosity and photospheric velocity holds fortheir set of model data.”