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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 314, 期 4, 页码 782-792出版社
BLACKWELL SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2000.03411.x
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supernovae : general; distance scale; infrared : stars
The absolute luminosities and homogeneity of early-time infrared (IR) Light curves of type Ia supernovae are examined. Eight supernovae are considered. These are selected to have accurately known epochs of maximum blue light as well as having reliable distance estimates and/or good light curve coverage. Two approaches to extinction correction are considered. Owing to the low extinction in the IR, the differences in the corrections via the two methods are small. Absolute magnitude light curves in the J, H and K bands are derived. Six of the events, including five established 'branch-normal' supernovae, show similar coeval magnitudes. Two of these, supernovae (SNe) 1989B and 1998bu, were observed near maximum infrared light. This occurs about 5 d before maximum blue light. Absolute peak magnitudes of about - 19.0, - 18.7 and - 18.8 in J, H and K respectively were obtained. The two spectroscopically peculiar supernovae in the sample, SNe 1986G and 1991T, also show atypical IR behaviour. The light curves of the six similar supernovae can be represented fairly consistently with a single light curve in each of the three bands. In all three IR bands the dispersion in absolute magnitude is about 0.15 mag, and this can be accounted for within the uncertainties of the individual light curves, No significant variation of absolute IR magnitude with B-band light curve decline rate, Delta m(15)(B), is seen over the range 0.87 < Delta m(15)(B) < 1.31. However, the data are insufficient to allow us to decide whether or not the decline rate relation is weaker in the IR than in the optical region. IR light curves of type Ia supernovae should eventually provide cosmological distance estimates that are of equal, or even superior, quality to those obtained in optical studies.
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