The Standard Candle Method for Type II Supernovae and the Hubble Constant
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The "standard candle method" for Type II plateau supernovae produces a Hubble diagram with a dispersion of 0.3 mag, which implies that this technique can produce distances with a precision of 15%. Using four nearby supernovae with Cepheid distances I find Ho(V)=75+/-7, and Ho(I)=65+/-12.
7 pages, 3 figures, Proceedings of IAU Colloquium 192, 'Supernovae (10 years of SN1993J)', 22-26 April 2003, Valencia, Spain
7 pages, 3 figures, Proceedings of IAU Colloquium 192, 'Supernovae (10 years of SN1993J)', 22-26 April 2003, Valencia, Spain