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The Standard Candle Method for Type II Supernovae and the Hubble Constant

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2016

Mario Hamuy
Mario Hamuy*
Affiliation:
The Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington , mhamuy@ociw.edu

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The “standard candle method” for Type II plateau supernovae produces a Hubble diagram with a dispersion of 0.3 mag, which implies that this technique can produce distances with a precision of 15%. Using four nearby supernovae with Cepheid distances I find H0(V)=75±7, and H0(I)=65±12.

Type
Part VIII Supernovae, Gamma-Ray Bursters, and Cosmology
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 192: Cosmic Explosions , 2005 , pp. 535 - 541
Copyright
Copyright © Springer-Verlag 2005

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