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The Influence of Host Galaxies in Type Ia Supernova Cosmology

Journal Article · · Astrophysical Journal
 [1];  [2]; ;  [3];  [4]
  1. Purple Mountain Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, Jiangshu (China)
  2. Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, VIC (Australia)
  3. Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics (CAASTRO) (Australia)
  4. CEA, Centre de Saclay, Irfu/SPP, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, Paris (France)
We use a sample of 1338 spectroscopically confirmed and photometrically classified Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) sourced from Carnegie Supernova Project, Center for Astrophysics Supernova Survey, Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II, and SuperNova Legacy Survey SN samples to examine the relationships between SNe Ia and the galaxies that host them. Our results provide confirmation with improved statistical significance that SNe Ia, after standardization, are on average more luminous in massive hosts (significance >5 σ ), and decline more rapidly in massive hosts (significance >9 σ ) and in hosts with low specific star formation rates (significance >8 σ ). We study the variation of these relationships with redshift and detect no evolution. We split SNe Ia into pairs of subsets that are based on the properties of the hosts and fit cosmological models to each subset. Including both systematic and statistical uncertainties, we do not find any significant shift in the best-fit cosmological parameters between the subsets. Among different SN Ia subsets, we find that SNe Ia in hosts with high specific star formation rates have the least intrinsic scatter ( σ {sub int} = 0.08 ± 0.01) in luminosity after standardization.
OSTI ID:
22679702
Journal Information:
Astrophysical Journal, Journal Name: Astrophysical Journal Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 848; ISSN ASJOAB; ISSN 0004-637X
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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