Supernovae Cosmology
Review: Type Ia Supernovae
Local Type Ia Hubble Plot
from Hamuy etal 1996
SNe light curves showing the luminosity-decline rate relationship (
pre-correction
,
post-correction
)
Finding High-z SNe
High-z SNe discovery
High-z SNe host galaxies
redshift-distance relationship
from Knop etal 2003
redshift-distance relationship
from Kowalski etal 2008
OmegaL - OmegaM plot
from Kowalski etal 2008
w-OmegaM
plot from Kowalski etal 2008
adding in external constraints
from Kowalski etal 2008
a cautionary plot
from Conley etal 2006
"The jerk"
from Riess etal 2007
Systematics?
Recent Papers:
Kowalski etal 2008
,
Riess etal 2007