FIXING THE U-BAND PHOTOMETRY OF TYPE Ia SUPERNOVAE Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We present previously unpublished photometry of supernovae 2003gs and 2003hv. Using spectroscopically derived corrections to the U-band photometry, we reconcile U-band light curves made from imagery with the Cerro Tololo 0.9m, 1.3m, and Las Campanas 1m telescopes. Previously, such light curves showed a 0.4mag spread at one month after maximum light. This gives us hope that a set of corrected ultraviolet light curves of nearby objects can contribute to the full utilization of rest-frame U-band data of supernovae at redshift 0.3-0.8. As pointed out recently by Kessler et al. in the context of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey supernova search, if we take the published U-band photometry of nearby TypeIa supernovae at face value, there is a 0.12mag U-band anomaly in the distance moduli of higher redshift objects. This anomaly led the Sloan survey to eliminate from their analyses all photometry obtained in the rest-frame U-band. The Supernova Legacy Survey eliminated observer frame U-band photometry, which is to say nearby objects observed in the U-band, but they used photometry of high-redshift objects no matter in which band the photons were emitted. 2013. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.

published proceedings

  • ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL

altmetric score

  • 0.25

author list (cited authors)

  • Krisciunas, K., Bastola, D., Espinoza, J., Gonzalez, D., Gonzalez, L., Gonzalez, S., ... Suntzeff, N. B.

citation count

  • 4

complete list of authors

  • Krisciunas, Kevin||Bastola, Deepak||Espinoza, Juan||Gonzalez, David||Gonzalez, Luis||Gonzalez, Sergio||Hamuy, Mario||Hsiao, Eric Y||Morrell, Nidia||Phillips, Mark M||Suntzeff, Nicholas B

publication date

  • January 2013