Type Ia Supernovae

• Part I. The Cosmological Observations: 1. Type Ia supernovae and their cosmological implications A.V. Filippenko and A. G. Riess; Part II. High Redshift Environments: 2. The Universe at z ~ 1: Implications for type Ia supernovae A. Dressler; 3. Probable effects of interstellar extinction on searches for SNe at z ~ 1 D. G. York; Part III. Progenitor Models: 4. The progenitors of type Ia Supernova M. Livio; 5. Type Ia supernova progenitors, models, and their cosmological signatures P. Ruiz-Lapuente et al.; 6. Type Ia supernova progenitors, environmental effects, and cosmic supernova rates K. Nomoto et al.; Part IV. Explosion and Light Curve Modeling: 7. On the evolution of type Ia supernovae with redshift P. Höflich et al.; Part V. Cosmological Perspectives: 8. Why cosmologists believe the universe is accelerating M. S. Turner; 9. The Sloan Digital sky survey and supernovae Ia J. A. Frieman; 10. Type Ia supernovae and cosmology: can L = 0 models be salvaged? W. Hillebrandt.

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