id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt qj72p556m8h Brian T Hayden Better Understanding Type Ia Supernovae With the Goal of Making Them More Reliable Distance Indicators 2013 .txt text/plain 382 13 41 This thesis presents research into the nature of SN Ia explosions and their environments, and discusses ongoing efforts to understand systematic errors in SN Ia distance measurements. While accurate measurements of the rise time do not significantly improve cosmological results, they do improve the estimate of 56-Ni yield, which is an important constraint in theoretical modeling of SN Ia explosions. cache/qj72p556m8h.txt txt/qj72p556m8h.txt