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astro-ph2001★ 14 cited

The Dyer-Roeder distance-redshift relation in inhomogeneous universes

E. Mortsell

Using Monte-Carlo methods, we determine the best-fit value of the homogeneity parameter alpha in the Dyer-Roeder distance-redshift relation for a variety of redshifts, inhomogeneit…

astro-ph2001★ 155 cited

The cosmic ray positron excess and neutralino dark matter

Edward A. Baltz, Joakim Edsjo, Katherine Freese +1

Using a new instrument, the HEAT collaboration has confirmed the excess of cosmic ray positrons that they first detected in 1994. We explore the possibility that this excess is due…

astro-ph2001★ 68 cited

Search for Supernova Neutrino-Bursts with the AMANDA Detector

AMANDA collaboration

The core collapse of a massive star in the Milky Way will produce a neutrino burst, intense enough to be detected by existing underground detectors. The AMANDA neutrino telescope l…

astro-ph2001★ 28 cited

Gravitational lensing of the farthest known supernova SN1997ff

Edvard Moertsell, Christofer Gunnarsson, Ariel Goobar

We investigate the effects of gravitational lensing due to intervening galaxies on the recently discovered Type Ia supernova at z=1.7, SN1997ff, in the Hubble Deep Field North. We…

astro-ph2001★ 186 cited

Spectral Gamma-ray Signatures of Cosmological Dark Matter Annihilation

Lars Bergstrom, Joakim Edsjo, Piero Ullio

We propose a new signature for weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter, a spectral feature in the diffuse extragalactic gamma-ray radiation. This feature, a sudden d…

astro-ph2001★ 364 cited

Timescale Stretch Parameterization of Type Ia Supernova B-band Light Curves

G. Goldhaber, D. E. Groom, A. Kim +24

R-band intensity measurements along the light curve of Type Ia supernovae discovered by the Supernova Cosmology Project (SCP) are fitted in brightness to templates allowing a free…

astro-ph2001★ 31 cited

Nickel Mixing in the Outer Layers of SN 1987A

Robert C. Mitchell, E. Baron, David Branch +4

Supernova 1987A remains the most well-observed and well-studied supernova to date. Observations produced excellent broad-band photometric and spectroscopic coverage over a wide wav…

astro-ph2001★ 131 cited

Supernovae and the Nature of the Dark Energy

M. Goliath, R. Amanullah, P. Astier +2

The use of Type Ia supernovae as calibrated standard candles is one of the most powerful tools to study the expansion history of the universe and thereby its energy components. Whi…

astro-ph2001★ 23 cited

Determining the fraction of compact objects in the Universe using supernova observations

E. Moertsell, A. Goobar, L. Bergstrom

We investigate the possibility to determine the fraction of compact objects in the Universe by studying gravitational lensing effects on Type Ia supernova observations. Using simul…

astro-ph2001★ 135 cited

X-ray, Optical, and Radio Observations of the Type II Supernovae 1999em and 1998S

D. Pooley, W. H. G. Lewin, D. W. Fox +12

Observations of the Type II-P (plateau) Supernova (SN) 1999em and Type IIn (narrow emission line) SN 1998S have enabled estimation of the profile of the SN ejecta, the structure of…

astro-ph2001

QSO environments at intermediate redshifts

M. Wold, M. Lacy, P. B. Lilje +1

We have made a survey of quasar environments at 0.5 < z < 0.8, using a sample of both radio-loud and radio-quiet quasars matched in B-band luminosity. Our observations include imag…