Published data sets for distance modulus versus redshift

[redtree]

Does anyone have a recommendation for a paper/source for data relating distance modulus and redshift data over a large range of redshift, such as 0 < z <= 5? I have found that combining data from different publications can be difficult given the variety of ways that distance modulus can be estimated/modeled.

 

[Chalnoth]

Does anyone have a recommendation for a paper/source for data relating distance modulus and redshift data over a large range of redshift, such as 0 < z <= 5? I have found that combining data from different publications can be difficult given the variety of ways that distance modulus can be estimated/modeled.

This is a good paper describing the different distance measures used in cosmology:
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9905116

 

[phyzguy]

Note that a lot of the difference between different publications is that a lot of people do it wrong! Read the Hogg paper Chalnoth sent carefully - it has the correct analysis.

 

[Chalnoth]

Looks like I may have misread the original post, even though the Hogg paper is excellent.

The primary difficulty is that nobody has good measurements of distance modulus out as far as z=5 (though people are trying with GRB data). The furthest is with supernovae out to about z=2 or so. The Union paper is a good compilation of the current supernova data.

 

[Chronos]

Try Vizier - vizier.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/VizieR

 

[BillSaltLake]

The best compilation of z vs. bolometric magnitude m is at

http://supernova.lbl.gov/Union/figures/SCPUnion2_mu_vs_z.txt

for 1a supernovae. This only goes out to z = 1.4

You can copy and drop into a spreadsheet, then reorder by ascending z. Do you need to know how to determine distance modulus from m(z)?