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Title: TYPE Ia SUPERNOVA PROPERTIES AS A FUNCTION OF THE DISTANCE TO THE HOST GALAXY IN THE SDSS-II SN SURVEY

Abstract

We use Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) discovered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II SN Survey to search for dependencies between SN Ia properties and the projected distance to the host-galaxy center, using the distance as a proxy for local galaxy properties (local star formation rate, local metallicity, etc.). The sample consists of almost 200 spectroscopically or photometrically confirmed SNe Ia at redshifts below 0.25. The sample is split into two groups depending on the morphology of the host galaxy. We fit light curves using both MLCS2K2 and SALT2, and determine color (A{sub V} , c) and light-curve shape ({Delta}, x{sub 1}) parameters for each SN Ia, as well as its residual in the Hubble diagram. We then correlate these parameters with both the physical and the normalized distances to the center of the host galaxy and look for trends in the mean values and scatters of these parameters with increasing distance. The most significant (at the 4{sigma} level) finding is that the average fitted A{sub V} from MLCS2K2 and c from SALT2 decrease with the projected distance for SNe Ia in spiral galaxies. We also find indications that supernovae (SNe) in elliptical galaxies tend to have narrower light curvesmore » if they explode at larger distances, although this may be due to selection effects in our sample. We do not find strong correlations between the residuals of the distance moduli with respect to the Hubble flow and the galactocentric distances, which indicates a limited correlation between SN magnitudes after standardization and local host metallicity.« less

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  1. Institut de Fisica d'Altes Energies, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, E-08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona) (Spain)
  2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 (United States)
  3. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48201 (United States)
  4. Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth, Dennis Sciama Building, Burnaby Road, Portsmouth PO1 3FX (United Kingdom)
  5. Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, 5640 South Ellise Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637 (United States)
  6. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers the State University of New Jersey, 136 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854 (United States)
  7. Center for Astrophysics, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, P.O. Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510 (United States)
  8. E.O. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, 1 Cyclotron Rd., Berkeley, CA 94720 (United States)
  9. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, 209 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 (United States)
  10. Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802 (United States)
  11. Department of Physics, University of Western Cape, Bellville 7535, Cape Town (South Africa)
  12. Oskar Klein Centre, Department of Astronomy, AlbaNova, SE-106 91 Stockholm (Sweden)
  13. Apache Point Observatory, P.O. Box 59, Sunspot, NM 88349 (United States)
Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
22039070
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Astrophysical Journal
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 755; Journal Issue: 2; Other Information: Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Journal ID: ISSN 0004-637X
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
79 ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY; ASTRONOMY; ASTROPHYSICS; COLOR; CORRELATIONS; DIAGRAMS; DISTANCE; MILKY WAY; MORPHOLOGY; PHOTOMETRY; RED SHIFT; SUPERNOVAE; VISIBLE RADIATION

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Galbany, Lluis, Miquel, Ramon, Oestman, Linda, Brown, Peter J, Olmstead, Matthew D, Cinabro, David, D'Andrea, Chris B, Nichol, Robert C, Frieman, Joshua, Jha, Saurabh W, Marriner, John, Nordin, Jakob, Sako, Masao, Schneider, Donald P, Smith, Mathew, Sollerman, Jesper, Pan, Kaike, Snedden, Stephanie, Bizyaev, Dmitry, Brewington, Howard, and others, and. TYPE Ia SUPERNOVA PROPERTIES AS A FUNCTION OF THE DISTANCE TO THE HOST GALAXY IN THE SDSS-II SN SURVEY. United States: N. p., 2012. Web. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/755/2/125.
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Galbany, Lluis, Miquel, Ramon, Oestman, Linda, Brown, Peter J, Olmstead, Matthew D, Cinabro, David, D'Andrea, Chris B, Nichol, Robert C, Frieman, Joshua, Jha, Saurabh W, Marriner, John, Nordin, Jakob, Sako, Masao, Schneider, Donald P, Smith, Mathew, Sollerman, Jesper, Pan, Kaike, Snedden, Stephanie, Bizyaev, Dmitry, Brewington, Howard, & others, and. TYPE Ia SUPERNOVA PROPERTIES AS A FUNCTION OF THE DISTANCE TO THE HOST GALAXY IN THE SDSS-II SN SURVEY. United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/755/2/125
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Galbany, Lluis, Miquel, Ramon, Oestman, Linda, Brown, Peter J, Olmstead, Matthew D, Cinabro, David, D'Andrea, Chris B, Nichol, Robert C, Frieman, Joshua, Jha, Saurabh W, Marriner, John, Nordin, Jakob, Sako, Masao, Schneider, Donald P, Smith, Mathew, Sollerman, Jesper, Pan, Kaike, Snedden, Stephanie, Bizyaev, Dmitry, Brewington, Howard, and others, and. 2012. "TYPE Ia SUPERNOVA PROPERTIES AS A FUNCTION OF THE DISTANCE TO THE HOST GALAXY IN THE SDSS-II SN SURVEY". United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/755/2/125.
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@article{osti_22039070,
title = {TYPE Ia SUPERNOVA PROPERTIES AS A FUNCTION OF THE DISTANCE TO THE HOST GALAXY IN THE SDSS-II SN SURVEY},
author = {Galbany, Lluis and Miquel, Ramon and Oestman, Linda and Brown, Peter J and Olmstead, Matthew D and Cinabro, David and D'Andrea, Chris B and Nichol, Robert C and Frieman, Joshua and Jha, Saurabh W and Marriner, John and Nordin, Jakob and Sako, Masao and Schneider, Donald P and Smith, Mathew and Sollerman, Jesper and Pan, Kaike and Snedden, Stephanie and Bizyaev, Dmitry and Brewington, Howard and others, and},
abstractNote = {We use Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) discovered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II SN Survey to search for dependencies between SN Ia properties and the projected distance to the host-galaxy center, using the distance as a proxy for local galaxy properties (local star formation rate, local metallicity, etc.). The sample consists of almost 200 spectroscopically or photometrically confirmed SNe Ia at redshifts below 0.25. The sample is split into two groups depending on the morphology of the host galaxy. We fit light curves using both MLCS2K2 and SALT2, and determine color (A{sub V} , c) and light-curve shape ({Delta}, x{sub 1}) parameters for each SN Ia, as well as its residual in the Hubble diagram. We then correlate these parameters with both the physical and the normalized distances to the center of the host galaxy and look for trends in the mean values and scatters of these parameters with increasing distance. The most significant (at the 4{sigma} level) finding is that the average fitted A{sub V} from MLCS2K2 and c from SALT2 decrease with the projected distance for SNe Ia in spiral galaxies. We also find indications that supernovae (SNe) in elliptical galaxies tend to have narrower light curves if they explode at larger distances, although this may be due to selection effects in our sample. We do not find strong correlations between the residuals of the distance moduli with respect to the Hubble flow and the galactocentric distances, which indicates a limited correlation between SN magnitudes after standardization and local host metallicity.},
doi = {10.1088/0004-637X/755/2/125},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/22039070}, journal = {Astrophysical Journal},
issn = {0004-637X},
number = 2,
volume = 755,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Aug 20 00:00:00 EDT 2012},
month = {Mon Aug 20 00:00:00 EDT 2012}
}
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