Results from the High-Z Supernova Search Team

Abstract

We review the use of Type Ia supernovae for cosmological distance determinations. Low-redshift SNe Ia ($z\lesssim 0.1$) demonstrate that (a) the Hubble expansion is linear, (b) $H_0=65\pm 2$ (statistical) km s${}^{-1}$ Mpc${}^{-1}$, (c) the bulk motion of the Local Group is consistent with the COBE result, and (d) the properties of dust in other galaxies are similar to those of dust in the Milky Way. We find that the light curves of high-redshift SNe Ia are stretched in a manner consistent with the expansion of space; similarly, their spectra exhibit slower temporal evolution (by a factor of $1+z$) than those of nearby SNe Ia. The luminosity distances of our 16 high-redshift SNe Ia are, on average, 10--15% farther than expected in a low mass-density (${\Omega }_M=0.2$) universe without a cosmological constant. Our analysis strongly supports eternally expanding models with positive cosmological constant and a current acceleration of the expansion. We address many potential sources of systematic error; at present, none of them reconciles the data with ${\Omega }_{\Lambda }=0$ and $q_0\ge 0$. The dynamical age of the Universe is estimated to be $14.2\pm 1.7$ Gyr, consistent with the ages of globular star clusters.

17 pages, latex, plus 2 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Sources and Detection of Dark Matter in the Universe (DM98), Feb. 1998, ed. D. Cline

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