Were early-generation Type Ia supenovae intrinsically brighter thantoday's?

Star burst | COSMOS magazine
"Simulations developed by supernova expert Stan Woosley, also of UC
Santa Cruz, along with Kasen, Fritz Röpke of the Max Planck Institute
for Astrophysics in Garching, Germany, and others now suggest that
supernovae that erupted a few billion years back in time may be
different - intrinsically brighter - than those exploding today. The
team has begun to identify several other features that may affect the
brightness - such as how rapidly a star rotated before it exploded and
its abundance of elements heavier than helium - which might confound
dark energy measurements if overlooked."
http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/featur...rst?page=0%2C1

On 12/23/09 5:05 AM, Yousuf Khan wrote:

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/featur...rst?page=0%2C1

Nice detail article--Important long term work.
Thanks.

-Sam

Sam Wormley wrote:
On 12/23/09 5:05 AM, Yousuf Khan wrote:

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/featur...rst?page=0%2C1

Nice detail article--Important long term work.
Thanks.

-Sam

And to think that the secret to figuring these supernovae out lay in
internal combustion engine research. :-)

Yousuf Khan

Yousuf Khan wrote:

Star burst | COSMOS magazine
"Simulations developed by supernova expert Stan Woosley, also of UC
Santa Cruz, along with Kasen, Fritz Röpke of the Max Planck Institute
for Astrophysics in Garching, Germany, and others now suggest that
supernovae that erupted a few billion years back in time may be
different - intrinsically brighter - than those exploding today. The
team has begun to identify several other features that may affect the
brightness - such as how rapidly a star rotated before it exploded and
its abundance of elements heavier than helium - which might confound
dark energy measurements if overlooked."
http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/featur...rst?page=0%2C1

If the need for Dark matter to fudge factor claimed accelerating
expansion of the universe vanishes, do librarians go through Physical
Review with a razor cutter?

--
Uncle Al
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http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/qz4.htm

Yousuf Khan wrote:

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This is good, post more stuff like this.

Given that a Type 1a happens by the detonation [helium flash] of light
elements accumulating on a white dwarf, the initial conditions for the
supernovae are all remarkably similar and have comparatively small parameter
spaces than compared to...every other supernova.

Uncle Al a écrit :

If the need for Dark matter to fudge factor claimed accelerating
expansion of the universe vanishes, do librarians go through Physical
Review with a razor cutter?


Idiot

Uncle Al wrote:

Yousuf Khan wrote:

Star burst | COSMOS magazine
"Simulations developed by supernova expert Stan Woosley, also of UC
Santa Cruz, along with Kasen, Fritz Röpke of the Max Planck Institute
for Astrophysics in Garching, Germany, and others now suggest that
supernovae that erupted a few billion years back in time may be
different - intrinsically brighter - than those exploding today. The
team has begun to identify several other features that may affect the
brightness - such as how rapidly a star rotated before it exploded and
its abundance of elements heavier than helium - which might confound
dark energy measurements if overlooked."
http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/featur...rst?page=0%2C1

If the need for Dark matter to fudge factor claimed accelerating
expansion of the universe vanishes, do librarians go through Physical
Review with a razor cutter?


Dark matter is not dark energy, Al.

But regardless...no, but that would make life more interesting if it were
the case that there was a systematic error in the measurements of 1a
supernovae that exactly corresponded to the apparent acceleration of the
universe. It makes it even more interesting if you consider vacuum energy
and the dark energy / dark matter fit (Lambda-CDM) to the CMB in the context
of no accelerated expansion.