Super Luminous Supernovae as standardizable candles and high redshift distance probes

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We investigate the use of type Ic Super Luminous Supernovae as standardizable candles and distance indicators.

• Their appeal as cosmological probes stems from their remarkable peak luminosities, hot blackbody temperatures and bright restframe ultraviolet emission.
• We present a sample of sixteen published SLSN, from redshifts 0.1 to 1.2 and calculate accurate K-corrections to determine uniform magnitudes in two synthetic rest-frame filters with central wavelengths at 400nm and 520nm.
• At 400nm, we find a low scatter in their uncorrected, raw mean magnitudes with M(400)=-21.70 for the full sample of sixteen objects.