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Type Ia supernova counts at high z: signatures of cosmological models and progenitors
Determination of the rates at which supernovae of Type Ia (SNe Ia) occur in
the early Universe can give signatures of the time spent by the binary
progenitor systems to reach explosion and of the geometry of the Universe.
Observations made within the Supernova Cosmology Project are already providing
the first numbers. Here it is shown that, for any assumed SNe Ia progenitor,
SNe Ia counts up to are useful tests of the SNe Ia
progenitor systems and cosmological tracers of a possible non-zero value of the
cosmological constant, . The SNe Ia counts at high redshifts compare
differently with those at lower redshifts depending on the cosmological model.
Flat --dominated universes would show a more significant
increase of the SNe Ia counts at than a flat,
universe. Here we consider three sorts of universes: a flat universe with
, , ;
an open universe with , ,
; and a flat, --dominated universe with , , ). On the
other hand, the SNe Ia counts from one class of binary progenitors (double
degenerate systems) should not increase steeply in the to range,
contrary to what should be seen for other binary progenitors. A measurement of
the SNe Ia counts up to is within reach of ongoing SNe Ia searches
at high redshifts.Comment: 16 pages, incl. 2 figures. To appear in ApJ (Letters
Quark masses without Yukawa hierarchies
A model based on the local gauge group SU(3)_c x SU(3)_L x U(1)_X without
particles with exotic electric charges is shown to be able to provide the quark
mass spectrum and their mixing, by means of universal see-saw mechanisms,
avoiding a hierarchy in the Yukawa coupling constants.Comment: 7 pages, 1 eps figure. Published in Europhysics Letter
Search for the companions of Galactic SNe Ia
The central regions of the remnants of Galactic SNe Ia have been examined for
the presence of companion stars of the exploded supernovae. We present the
results of this survey for the historical SN 1572 and SN 1006. The spectra of
the stars are modeled to obtain Teff, log g and the metallicity. Radial
velocities are obtained with an accuracy of 5--10 km s. Implications for
the nature of the companion star in SNeIa follow.Comment: 8 pages, 2 Postscript figures. Appeared in "From Twilight to
Highlight: the Physics of Supernovae", ed. W. Hillebrandt & B. Leibundgut
(Springer), pp. 140-14
Neural network classification of gamma-ray bursts
From a cluster analysis it appeared that a three-class classification of GRBs could be preferable to just the classic separation of short/hard and long/soft GRBs (Balastegui A., Ruiz-Lapuente P. and Canal R. MNRAS 328 (2001) 283). A new classification of GRBs obtained via a neural network is presented, with a short/hard class, an intermediate-duration/soft class, and a long/soft class, the
latter being a brighter and more inhomogenous class than the intermediate duration one. A possible physical meaning of this new classification is also outlined
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