Thermonuclear Burning Regimes and the Use of SNe Ia in Cosmology
arXiv:astro-ph/9906494 · doi:10.1134/1.20370
Abstract
The calculations of the light curves of thermonuclear supernovae are carried out by a method of multi-group radiation hydrodynamics. The effects of spectral lines and expansion opacity are taken into account. The predictions for UBVI fluxes are given. The values of rise time for B and V bands found in our calculations are in good agreement with the observed values. We explain why our results for the rise time have more solid physical justification than those obtained by other authors. It is shown that small variations in the chemical composition of the ejecta, produced in the explosions with different regimes of nuclear burning, can influence drastically the light curve decline in the B band and, to a lesser extent, in the V band. We argue that recent results on positive cosmological constant Lambda, found from the high redshift supernova observations, could be wrong in the case of possible variations of the preferred mode of nuclear burning in the earlier Universe.
20 pages, 5 figures, presented at the conference "Astronomy at the Eve of the New Century", Puschino, May 17-22, 1999. A few references and a table added, typos corrected
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