Published 1984 | Version v1
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Optical supernovae and the Hubble constant

Creators

  • 1. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019

Description

Three ways to use optical supernovae to estimate the value of the Hubble constant are reviewed by the author: (1) Type I supernovae as standard candles, (2) the Baade-Wesselink method applied to Type II and Type I supernovae, and (3) the /sup 56/Ni-radioactivity method for SNe I. It is likely that H/sub 0/ ≅ 50 - 60 km s/sup -1/ Mpc/sup -1/. If ''ordinary'' Type I supernovae are completely-disrupting carbon-oxygen white dwarfs near the Chandrasekhar mass, the /sup 56/Ni-method provides a rigorous lower limit, H/sub 0/≥40, and a firm upper limit, H/sub 0/≤70 km s/sup -1/ Mpc/sup -1/

Additional details

Publishing Information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint Place
New York, NY (USA)
ISBN
0-387-15206-7
Imprint Title
Supernovae as distance indicators
Journal Page Range
p. 138-150.

Conference

Title
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics conference on supernovae as distance indicators.
Dates
27-28 Sep 1984.
Place
Cambridge, MA (USA).

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
18092158
Subject category
S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY; S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
ASTRONOMY; BENCHMARKS; CHANDRASEKHAR THEORY; COSMOLOGY; HUBBLE EFFECT; LUMINOSITY; MASS; NICKEL 56; NUCLEOSYNTHESIS; RADIOACTIVITY; SUPERNOVAE; WHITE DWARF STARS
Descriptors DEC
BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BINARY STARS; DAYS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; DWARF STARS; ELECTRON CAPTURE RADIOISOTOPES; ERUPTIVE VARIABLE STARS; EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI; INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI; ISOTOPES; NICKEL ISOTOPES; NUCLEI; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; RADIOISOTOPES; STARS; SYNTHESIS; VARIABLE STARS