How far can we trust type Ia supernovae as standard candles?

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Title: How far can we trust type Ia supernovae as standard candles?
Author(s): Wickramasinghe, Dayal; Tout, Christopher A.; Regos, Eniko; Hurley, Jarrod; Pols, Onno
Abstract: We review the various possibilities that have been proposed as progenitors of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) from the point of view of binary evolution and population synthesis. Depending on the nature of the progenitor, there may be systematic effects that cannot be calibrated by local observations that could undermine their use as standard candles.
Publication type: Book chapter
Research centre: Swinburne University of Technology
Source: Astrophysics and space science library: White dwarfs: cosmological and galactic probes / Edward M. Sion, Stephane Vennes and Harry L. Shipman (eds.), Vol. 332, pp. 175-189
Publication year: 2005
FOR Code(s): 0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences
Keyword(s): Close binaries; Cosmology; Stellar evolution; Supernovae
Publisher: Springer
ISSN: 0067-0057 (series ISSN)
ISBN: 9781402036934, 1402036930
Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3725-2_16
Peer reviewed