Tests of the Accelerating Universe with Near-Infrared Observations of a High-Redshift Type Ia Supernova

By A. Riess, A. Filippenko, Michael C. Liu, P. Challis, A. Clocchiatti, A. Diercks, P. Garnavich, C. Hogan, S. Jha, R. Kirshner and 18 more. 2000

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We have measured the rest-frame B-, V-, and I-band light curves of a high-redshift type Ia supernova (SN Ia), SN 1999Q (z = 0.46), using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and ground-based near-infrared detectors. A goal of this study is the measurement of the color excess, EB-I, a sensitive indicator of interstellar or intergalactic dust, which could affect recent cosmological measurements from high-redshift SNe Ia. Our observations disfavor a 30% opacity of SN Ia visual light by dust as an alternative to an accelerating universe. This statement applies to both Galactic-type dust (rejected at the 3.4 σ confidence level) and grayer dust (grain size > 0.1 μm, rejected at the 2.3-2.6 σ confidence level) as proposed by Aguirre. The rest-frame I-band light curve shows the secondary maximum 1 month after the B maximum typical of nearby SNe Ia of normal luminosity, providing no indication of evolution as a function of redshift out to z ≈ 0.5. An expanded set of similar observations could improve the constraints on any contribution of extragalactic dust to the dimming of high-redshift SNe Ia.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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The Dust Opacity of Star‐forming Galaxies (2001, methodology): “Using observations of Type 1a supernovae at z∼0.5 and z∼1.7, Riess et al. (2000) and Riess et al. (2001) have placed a limit of AV ∼0.1–0.15 to the amount of diffuse, gray IGM dust to z=0.5.”
Categorizing Different Approaches to the Cosmological Constant Problem (2004, background): “Actually, after the remarkable discoveries and subsequent confirmations starting in 1997 (SN)[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11] (WMAP) [12, 13] (Boomerang) [14, 15] (SdSS) [16, 17] (Hubble) [18] that the universe really is accelerating its expansion, there appear to be at present at least three cos”
Observational Constraints on the Nature of Dark Energy: First Cosmological Results from the ESSENCE Supernova Survey (2007, background): “The possibility of grey dust raised by Aguirre (1999a,b) was examined by Riess et al. (2000) and and by Nobili et al. (2005) through infrared observations of high-z supernovae and was put to rest by the very high-redshift observations of Riess et al. (2004).”
Cosmological Results from High-z Supernovae (2003, background): “Near-infrared observations of one SN Ia at 0.5 (Riess et al. 2000) do not show the presence of this form of dust.”
Mechanical feedback from active galactic nuclei in galaxies, groups and clusters (2012, result): “The large scale structure of the Universe revealed by WMAP (Spergel et al 2007, Komatsu et al 2011), distant supernovae (Perlmutter et al 1999, Riess et al 2000) and galaxy clusters (Vikhlinin et al 2009, Mantz et al 2010, Allen et al 2011) agrees remarkably well with the 3CDM cosmogony (Davis et…”
Twenty-Three High-Redshift Supernovae from the Institute for Astronomy Deep Survey: Doubling the Supernova Sample at z > 0.7 (2004, background): “Near-IR observations (Riess et al. 2000) showed no evidence for extragalactic dust in a single SN Ia at z 0:5, and spectra of a separate object at a similar redshift (Coil et al. 2000) compared very closely with nearby SNe Ia, showing no sign of spectroscopic evolution.”
Hubble Space Telescope and Ground-based Observations of Type Ia Supernovae at Redshift 0.5: Cosmological Implications (2005, unknown): “These results were published by Riess et al. (2000).”
A High Intrinsic Peculiarity Rate among Type Ia Supernovae (2000, methodology): “Although this assumption is supported to Ðrst order by comparisons of the photometric and spectroscopic properties of SNe Ia at high and low redshifts (e.g., Riess et al. 1998, 2000 ; Coil et al. 2000), there is also some evidence for di†erences between SNe Ia at di†erent redshifts.”
The Unique Type Ia Supernova 2000cx in NGC 524 (2001, background): “…assumption is supported to first order by comparisons of the photometric and spectroscopic properties of SNe Ia at high and low redshifts (e.g., Riess et al. 1998a, 2000; Coil et al. 2000), there is also some evidence for differences between SNe Ia at different redshifts (e.g., Riess et al.…”
The Hubble Higher z Supernova Search: Supernovae to z ≈ 1.6 and Constraints on Type Ia Progenitor Models (2004, background): “…intergalactic dust models (Riess et al. 2000) and statistically showing strong similarity in SN Ia characteristics at all age epochs, locally and at hzi 0:5 (Riess et al. 1998, 2000; Perlmutter et al. 1999; Aldering et al. 2000; Sullivan et al. 2003), but neither has been conclusively ruled out.”
COSMOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS FROM OBSERVATIONS OF TYPE IA SUPERNOVAE (2001, methodology): “Colors have been determined not only for the estimation of the absorption, but also to investigate the color evolution (Schmidt et al. 1998, Riess et al. 2000).”
A Unified, Merger-driven Model of the Origin of Starbursts, Quasars, the Cosmic X-Ray Background, Supermassive Black Holes, and Galaxy Spheroids (2005, background): “…measurements of anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background (e.g. Spergel et al. 2003) combined with observations of high redshift supernovae (e.g. Riess et al. 1998, 2000; Perlmutter et al. 1999) have led to the establishment of a “standard model” for the global properties of the Universe.”