2005ApJ...626L..11F -
Astrophys. J., 626, L11-L14 (2005/June-2)
A definitive measurement of time dilation in the spectral evolution of the moderate-redshift type Ia supernova 1997ex.
FOLEY R.J., FILIPPENKO A.V., LEONARD D.C., RIESS A.G., NUGENT P. and PERLMUTTER S.
Abstract (from CDS):
We have obtained high-quality Keck optical spectra at three epochs of the Type Ia supernova 1997ex, whose redshift z is 0.361. The elapsed calendar time between the first two spectra was 24.88 days, and that between the first and third spectra was 30.95 days. In an expanding universe where 1+z represents the factor by which space has expanded between the emission and detection of light, the amount of aging in the supernova rest frame should be a factor of 1/(1+z) smaller than the observed-frame aging; thus, we expect SN 1997ex to have aged 18.28 and 22.74 days between the first epoch and the second and third epochs, respectively. The quantitative method for determining the spectral-feature age of an SN Ia reveals that the corresponding elapsed times in the supernova rest frame were 16.97±2.75 and 18.01±3.14 days, respectively. This result is inconsistent with no time dilation with a significance level of 99.0%, providing evidence against ``tired light'' and other hypotheses in which no time dilation is expected. Moreover, the observed timescale of spectral evolution is inconsistent with that expected in the ``variable mass theory.'' The result is within ∼1 σ of the aging expected from a universe in which redshift is produced by cosmic expansion.
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Cosmology: Observations - Stars: Supernovae: Individual: Alphanumeric: SN 1997ex
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