Univ. of Copenhagen (Denmark). Dark Cosmology Centre, Niels Bohr Institute; California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States). Department of Astronomy
San Diego State University, CA (United States). Department of Astronomy; The University of Tokyo (Japan). Kavli IPMU (WPI), UTIAS
California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States). Infrared Processing and Analysis Center
The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot (Israel). Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Faculty of Physics
The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot (Israel). Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Faculty of Physics; European Southern Observatory (Germany)
California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States). Department of Astronomy
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Department of Astronomy
California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States). Spitzer Science Center
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Department of Astronomy; Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
In this paper, we present ultraviolet through near-infrared photometry and spectroscopy of the host galaxies of all superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) discovered by the Palomar Transient Factory prior to 2013 and derive measurements of their luminosities, star formation rates, stellar masses, and gas-phase metallicities. We find that Type I (hydrogen-poor) SLSNe (SLSNe I) are found almost exclusively in low-mass (M∗ < 2 x 109 M⊙) and metal-poor (12 + log10[O/H] < 8.4) galaxies. We compare the mass and metallicity distributions of our sample to nearby galaxy catalogs in detail and conclude that the rate of SLSNe I as a fraction of all SNe is heavily suppressed in galaxies with metallicities ≳0.5 Z⊙. Extremely low metallicities are not required and indeed provide no further increase in the relative SLSN rate. Several SLSN I hosts are undergoing vigorous starbursts, but this may simply be a side effect of metallicity dependence: dwarf galaxies tend to have bursty star formation histories. Type II (hydrogen-rich) SLSNe (SLSNe II) are found over the entire range of galaxy masses and metallicities, and their integrated properties do not suggest a strong preference for (or against) low-mass/low-metallicity galaxies. Finally, two hosts exhibit unusual properties: PTF 10uhf is an SLSN I in a massive, luminous infrared galaxy at redshift z=0.29, while PTF 10tpz is an SLSN II located in the nucleus of an early-type host at z=0.04.
Perley, D. A., et al. "Host-galaxy properties of 32 low-redshift superluminous supernovae from the palomar transient factory." The Astrophysical Journal (Online), vol. 830, no. 1, Oct. 2016. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/830/1/13
Perley, D. A., Quimby, R. M., Yan, L., Vreeswijk, P. M., Cia, A. De, Lunnan, R., Gal-Yam, A., Yaron, O., Filippenko, A. V., Graham, M. L., Laher, R., & Nugent, P. E. (2016). Host-galaxy properties of 32 low-redshift superluminous supernovae from the palomar transient factory. The Astrophysical Journal (Online), 830(1). https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/830/1/13
Perley, D. A., Quimby, R. M., Yan, L., et al., "Host-galaxy properties of 32 low-redshift superluminous supernovae from the palomar transient factory," The Astrophysical Journal (Online) 830, no. 1 (2016), https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/830/1/13
@article{osti_1456959,
author = {Perley, D. A. and Quimby, R. M. and Yan, L. and Vreeswijk, P. M. and Cia, A. De and Lunnan, R. and Gal-Yam, A. and Yaron, O. and Filippenko, A. V. and Graham, M. L. and others},
title = {Host-galaxy properties of 32 low-redshift superluminous supernovae from the palomar transient factory},
annote = {In this paper, we present ultraviolet through near-infrared photometry and spectroscopy of the host galaxies of all superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) discovered by the Palomar Transient Factory prior to 2013 and derive measurements of their luminosities, star formation rates, stellar masses, and gas-phase metallicities. We find that Type I (hydrogen-poor) SLSNe (SLSNe I) are found almost exclusively in low-mass (M∗ 9 M⊙) and metal-poor (12 + log10[O/H] ⊙. Extremely low metallicities are not required and indeed provide no further increase in the relative SLSN rate. Several SLSN I hosts are undergoing vigorous starbursts, but this may simply be a side effect of metallicity dependence: dwarf galaxies tend to have bursty star formation histories. Type II (hydrogen-rich) SLSNe (SLSNe II) are found over the entire range of galaxy masses and metallicities, and their integrated properties do not suggest a strong preference for (or against) low-mass/low-metallicity galaxies. Finally, two hosts exhibit unusual properties: PTF 10uhf is an SLSN I in a massive, luminous infrared galaxy at redshift z=0.29, while PTF 10tpz is an SLSN II located in the nucleus of an early-type host at z=0.04.},
doi = {10.3847/0004-637X/830/1/13},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1456959},
journal = {The Astrophysical Journal (Online)},
issn = {ISSN 1538-4357},
number = {1},
volume = {830},
place = {United States},
publisher = {Institute of Physics (IOP)},
year = {2016},
month = {10}}