Cosmic Chandlery with Thermonuclear Supernovae
arXiv:1612.01915 · doi:10.1088/1742-6596/837/1/012005
Abstract
Thermonuclear (Type Ia) supernovae are bright stellar explosions, the light curves of which can be calibrated to allow for use as "standard candles" for measuring cosmological distances. Contemporary research investigates how the brightness of an event may be influenced by properties of the progenitor system that follow from properties of the host galaxy such as composition and age. The goals are to better understand systematic effects and to assess the intrinsic scatter in the brightness, thereby reducing uncertainties in cosmological studies. We present the results from ensembles of simulations in the single-degenerate paradigm addressing the influence of age and metallicity on the brightness of an event and compare our results to observed variations of brightness that correlate with properties of the host galaxy. We also present results from "hybrid" progenitor models that incorporate recent advances in stellar evolution.
14 pages, accepted to the proceedings of Astronum2016 - 11th International Conference on Numerical Modeling of Space Plasma Flows, June 6-10, 2016
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