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Hubble diagrams of relativistic broad-lined type Ic supernovae

Zach Cano·Pall Jakobsson·Oli Pall Geirsson
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This paper is a demonstration of how relativistic, broad-lined type Ic supernovae (SNe IcBL) can be used to constrain a value of the Hubble constant in the local universe ($H_{0}$). Included in our sample of SNe IcBL are the SNe associated with long-duration $γ$-ray bursts (GRB-SNe), as well as local relativistic SNe IcBL that are not associated with GRBs. Building upon recent results that found a luminosity$-$stretch relationship for a sample of nine GRB-SNe, we demonstrate that GRB-SNe and SNe IcBL have statistically significant luminosity$-$decline relationships in $BVR$ filters at the $p=0.02$ confidence level. Conversely, we show that SNe Ib, Ic and IIb do not have statistically significant luminosity$-$decline relationships. Two of the relativistic SNe IcBL in our sample have independent distance measurements (SN 2009bb and SN 2012ap) that we used to constrain a weighted-average value of ${H}_{0,\rm w}=82.5\pm8.1$ km s$^{-1}$ Mpc$^{-1}$. This value is 1$σ$ greater than that obtained using SNe Ia, and 2$σ$ larger than that determined by Planck. This difference can be attributed to large peculiar motions of the host galaxies of the two SNe IcBL, which are members of galaxy groups. When determining a value of $H_{0}$ using SNe Ib, Ic and IIb, we found an average value of $H_{0}$ that has a standard deviation of order $20-40$ km s$^{-1}$ Mpc$^{-1}$, which demonstrates that these SNe are poor cosmological candles. With the launch of the next generation of space telescopes, SNe IcBL, and in particular GRB-SNe, have the potential to constrain constrain the Hubble diagram up to a redshift of $z=3-5$.

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Zach Cano, Pall Jakobsson, Oli Pall Geirsson. 2016-01-21. Hubble diagrams of relativistic broad-lined type Ic supernovae. https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.3570

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