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Alejandro Clocchiatti et al. 2006 ApJ 642 1 doi:10.1086/498491

Hubble Space Telescope and Ground-based Observations of Type Ia Supernovae at Redshift 0.5: Cosmological Implications* **

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Alejandro Clocchiatti1, Brian P. Schmidt2, Alexei V. Filippenko3, Peter Challis4, Alison L. Coil3, R. Covarrubias5, Alan Diercks5, Peter Garnavich6, Lisa Germany2, Ron Gilliland7, Craig Hogan5, Saurabh Jha3,4, Robert P. Kirshner4, Bruno Leibundgut8, Doug Leonard3,9, Weidong Li3, Thomas Matheson4,10, Mark M. Phillips11, José Luis Prieto12,13, David Reiss5, Adam G. Riess7, Robert Schommer12,14, R. Chris Smith12, Alicia Soderberg3,9, Jason Spyromilio8, Christopher Stubbs15, Nicholas B. Suntzeff12, John L. Tonry16 and Patrick Woudt8

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We present observations of the Type Ia supernovae (SNe) 1999M, 1999N, 1999Q, 1999S, and 1999U, at redshift z ≈ 0.5. They were discovered in early 1999 with the 4.0 m Blanco telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory by the High-z Supernova Search Team (HZT) and subsequently followed with many ground-based telescopes. SNe 1999Q and 1999U were also observed with the Hubble Space Telescope. We computed luminosity distances to the new SNe using two methods and added them to the high-z Hubble diagram that the HZT has been constructing since 1995. The new distance moduli confirm the results of previous work. At z ≈ 0.5, luminosity distances are larger than those expected for an empty universe, implying that a "cosmological constant," or another form of "dark energy," has been increasing the expansion rate of the universe during the last few billion years. Combining these new HZT SNe Ia with our previous results and assuming a ΛCDM cosmology, we estimate the cosmological parameters that best fit our measurements. For a sample of 75 low-redshift and 47 high-redshift SNe Ia with MLCS2k2 (Jha and coworkers) luminosity calibration we obtain ΩM = 0.79img1.gif and ΩΛ = 1.57img2.gif (1 σ uncertainties) if no constraints are imposed, or ΩM = 0.29img3.gif if ΩM + ΩΛ = 1 is assumed. For a different sample of 58 low-redshift and 48 high-redshift SNe Ia with luminosity calibrations done using the PRES method (a generalization of the Δm15 method), the results are ΩM = 0.43img4.gif and ΩΛ = 1.18img5.gif (1 σ uncertainties) if no constraints are imposed, or ΩM = 0.18img6.gif if ΩM + ΩΛ = 1 is assumed.


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*  Based in part on observations with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, obtained at the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), Inc., under NASA contract NAS 5-26555. This research is primarily associated with proposal GO-7505.
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**  Based in part on observations taken at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory. Some of the data presented herein were obtained at the W. M. Keck Observatory, which is operated as a scientific partnership among the California Institute of Technology, the University of California, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The Observatory was made possible by the generous financial support of the W. M. Keck Foundation. Based in part on observations with the University of Hawaii 2.2 m telescope at Mauna Kea Observatory, Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii. Based in part on observations obtained at the European Southern Observatory, Paranal and La Silla, Chile, under programs ESO 64.O-0391 and ESO 64.O-0404. Based in part on observations taken at the WIYN Observatory, a joint facility of the University of Wisconsin (Madison), Indiana University, Yale University, and the National Optical Astronomy Observatory.
Subject headings

cosmology: observations; distance scale; galaxies: distances and redshifts; supernovae: general


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Issue 1 (2006 May 1)

Received 2004 June 18, accepted for publication 2005 October 3



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