Cosmology with Type II supernovae

With the recent progresses on the Type II supernovae, we attempt to investigate whether there does exist new physics beyond the standard cosmological paradigm, i.e., the cosmological constant $\Lambda$ plus cold dark matter ($\Lambda$CDM). Constraining four alternative cosmological models with currently available Type II supernovae data calibrated by the standard color method, at the $1\sigma$ confidence level, we find that: (i) a spatially flat universe is supported for the non-flat $\Lambda$CDM model; (ii) the constrained equation of state of dark energy $\omega$ is consistent with the $\Lambda$CDM hypothesis for the $\omega$CDM model where $\omega$ is a free parameter; (iii) for the decaying vacuum model, there is no evidence of interaction between dark matter and dark energy in the dark sector of the universe; (iv) there is also no hint of dynamical dark energy for the dark energy density-parametrization scenario. It is very obvious that a larger Type II supernovae sample is required, if we expect to draw definitive conclusions about the formation and evolution of the universe.