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Title: Supernova Siblings: Assessing the Consistency of Properties of Type Ia Supernovae that Share the Same Parent Galaxies

Abstract

While many studies have shown a correlation between properties of the light curves of Type Ia SN (SNe Ia) and properties of their host galaxies, it remains unclear what is driving these correlations. We introduce a new direct method to study these correlations by analyzing `parent' galaxies that host multiple SNe Ia 'siblings'. Here, we search the Dark Energy Survey SN sample, one of the largest samples of discovered SNe, and find 8 galaxies that hosted two likely Type Ia SNe. Comparing the light-curve properties of these SNe and recovered distances from the light curves, we find no better agreement between properties of SNe in the same galaxy as any random pair of galaxies, with the exception of the SN light-curve stretch. We show at 2.8σ significance that at least 1/2 of the intrinsic scatter of SNe Ia distance modulus residuals is not from common host properties. We also discuss the robustness with which we could make this evaluation with LSST, which will find 100× more pairs of galaxies, and pave a new line of study on the consistency of Type Ia supernovae in the same parent galaxies. Finally, we argue that it is unlikely some of these SNe aremore » actually single, lensed SN with multiple images.« less

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Research Org.:
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States); Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); National Science Foundation (NSF); European Union (EU); European Research Council (ERC); Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation of Spain (MINECO); Australian Research Council; Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq)
Contributing Org.:
DES Collaboration
OSTI Identifier:
1599315
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1647635; OSTI ID: 1734762; OSTI ID: 1785321
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-PUB-20-057-AE; arXiv:2002.00974
Journal ID: ISSN 2041-8213; oai:inspirehep.net:1778552
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-07CH11359; AC02-76SF00515; SC0009924; FOA-0001358; AC02-05CH11231; SC0010007; NNG17PX03C; AST-1517742; AST-1518052; AST-1815935; AST1138766; AST-1536171; 839090; 240672; 291329; 306478; 615929; AYA2015-71825; ESP2015-66861; FPA2015-68048; SEV-2016-0588; SEV-2016-0597; MDM-2015-0509; CE110001020; 465376/2014-2; SC0019193
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
The Astrophysical Journal. Letters (Online)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: The Astrophysical Journal. Letters (Online); Journal Volume: 896; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2041-8213
Publisher:
IOP Publishing
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS

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Scolnic, D., Smith, M., Massiah, A., Wiseman, P., Brout, D., Kessler, R., Davis, T. M., Foley, R. J., Galbany, L., Hinton, S. R., Hounsell, R., Kelsey, L., Lidman, C., Macaulay, E., Morgan, R., Nichol, R. C., Möller, A., Popovic, B., Sako, M., Sullivan, M., Thomas, B. P., Tucker, B. E., Abbott, T. C., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Annis, J., Avila, S., Bechtol, K., Bertin, E., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Rosell, A. Carnero, Carollo, D., Kind, M. Carrasco, Carretero, J., Costanzi, M., da Costa, L. N., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Doel, P., Drlica-Wagner, A., Eckert, K., Eifler, T. F., Everett, S., Flaugher, B., Fosalba, P., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., Gerdes, D. W., Glazebrook, K., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Hartley, W. G., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., James, D. J., Kuehn, K., Kuropatkin, N., Lewis, G. F., Li, T. S., Lima, M., Maia, M. G., Marshall, J. L., Menanteau, F., Miquel, R., Palmese, A., Paz-Chinchón, F., Plazas, A. A., Pursiainen, M., Sanchez, E., Scarpine, V., Schubnell, M., Serrano, S., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sommer, N. E., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. C., Tarle, G., Varga, T. N., Walker, A. R., and Wilkinson, R. Supernova Siblings: Assessing the Consistency of Properties of Type Ia Supernovae that Share the Same Parent Galaxies. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.3847/2041-8213/ab8735.
Scolnic, D., Smith, M., Massiah, A., Wiseman, P., Brout, D., Kessler, R., Davis, T. M., Foley, R. J., Galbany, L., Hinton, S. R., Hounsell, R., Kelsey, L., Lidman, C., Macaulay, E., Morgan, R., Nichol, R. C., Möller, A., Popovic, B., Sako, M., Sullivan, M., Thomas, B. P., Tucker, B. E., Abbott, T. C., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Annis, J., Avila, S., Bechtol, K., Bertin, E., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Rosell, A. Carnero, Carollo, D., Kind, M. Carrasco, Carretero, J., Costanzi, M., da Costa, L. N., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Doel, P., Drlica-Wagner, A., Eckert, K., Eifler, T. F., Everett, S., Flaugher, B., Fosalba, P., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., Gerdes, D. W., Glazebrook, K., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Hartley, W. G., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., James, D. J., Kuehn, K., Kuropatkin, N., Lewis, G. F., Li, T. S., Lima, M., Maia, M. G., Marshall, J. L., Menanteau, F., Miquel, R., Palmese, A., Paz-Chinchón, F., Plazas, A. A., Pursiainen, M., Sanchez, E., Scarpine, V., Schubnell, M., Serrano, S., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sommer, N. E., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. C., Tarle, G., Varga, T. N., Walker, A. R., & Wilkinson, R. Supernova Siblings: Assessing the Consistency of Properties of Type Ia Supernovae that Share the Same Parent Galaxies. United States. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ab8735
Scolnic, D., Smith, M., Massiah, A., Wiseman, P., Brout, D., Kessler, R., Davis, T. M., Foley, R. J., Galbany, L., Hinton, S. R., Hounsell, R., Kelsey, L., Lidman, C., Macaulay, E., Morgan, R., Nichol, R. C., Möller, A., Popovic, B., Sako, M., Sullivan, M., Thomas, B. P., Tucker, B. E., Abbott, T. C., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Annis, J., Avila, S., Bechtol, K., Bertin, E., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Rosell, A. Carnero, Carollo, D., Kind, M. Carrasco, Carretero, J., Costanzi, M., da Costa, L. N., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Doel, P., Drlica-Wagner, A., Eckert, K., Eifler, T. F., Everett, S., Flaugher, B., Fosalba, P., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., Gerdes, D. W., Glazebrook, K., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Hartley, W. G., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., James, D. J., Kuehn, K., Kuropatkin, N., Lewis, G. F., Li, T. S., Lima, M., Maia, M. G., Marshall, J. L., Menanteau, F., Miquel, R., Palmese, A., Paz-Chinchón, F., Plazas, A. A., Pursiainen, M., Sanchez, E., Scarpine, V., Schubnell, M., Serrano, S., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sommer, N. E., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. C., Tarle, G., Varga, T. N., Walker, A. R., and Wilkinson, R. Wed . "Supernova Siblings: Assessing the Consistency of Properties of Type Ia Supernovae that Share the Same Parent Galaxies". United States. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ab8735. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1599315.
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title = {Supernova Siblings: Assessing the Consistency of Properties of Type Ia Supernovae that Share the Same Parent Galaxies},
author = {Scolnic, D. and Smith, M. and Massiah, A. and Wiseman, P. and Brout, D. and Kessler, R. and Davis, T. M. and Foley, R. J. and Galbany, L. and Hinton, S. R. and Hounsell, R. and Kelsey, L. and Lidman, C. and Macaulay, E. and Morgan, R. and Nichol, R. C. and Möller, A. and Popovic, B. and Sako, M. and Sullivan, M. and Thomas, B. P. and Tucker, B. E. and Abbott, T. C. and Aguena, M. and Allam, S. and Annis, J. and Avila, S. and Bechtol, K. and Bertin, E. and Brooks, D. and Burke, D. L. and Rosell, A. Carnero and Carollo, D. and Kind, M. Carrasco and Carretero, J. and Costanzi, M. and da Costa, L. N. and De Vicente, J. and Desai, S. and Diehl, H. T. and Doel, P. and Drlica-Wagner, A. and Eckert, K. and Eifler, T. F. and Everett, S. and Flaugher, B. and Fosalba, P. and Frieman, J. and García-Bellido, J. and Gaztanaga, E. and Gerdes, D. W. and Glazebrook, K. and Gruen, D. and Gruendl, R. A. and Gschwend, J. and Gutierrez, G. and Hartley, W. G. and Hollowood, D. L. and Honscheid, K. and James, D. J. and Kuehn, K. and Kuropatkin, N. and Lewis, G. F. and Li, T. S. and Lima, M. and Maia, M. G. and Marshall, J. L. and Menanteau, F. and Miquel, R. and Palmese, A. and Paz-Chinchón, F. and Plazas, A. A. and Pursiainen, M. and Sanchez, E. and Scarpine, V. and Schubnell, M. and Serrano, S. and Sevilla-Noarbe, I. and Sommer, N. E. and Suchyta, E. and Swanson, M. C. and Tarle, G. and Varga, T. N. and Walker, A. R. and Wilkinson, R.},
abstractNote = {While many studies have shown a correlation between properties of the light curves of Type Ia SN (SNe Ia) and properties of their host galaxies, it remains unclear what is driving these correlations. We introduce a new direct method to study these correlations by analyzing `parent' galaxies that host multiple SNe Ia 'siblings'. Here, we search the Dark Energy Survey SN sample, one of the largest samples of discovered SNe, and find 8 galaxies that hosted two likely Type Ia SNe. Comparing the light-curve properties of these SNe and recovered distances from the light curves, we find no better agreement between properties of SNe in the same galaxy as any random pair of galaxies, with the exception of the SN light-curve stretch. We show at 2.8σ significance that at least 1/2 of the intrinsic scatter of SNe Ia distance modulus residuals is not from common host properties. We also discuss the robustness with which we could make this evaluation with LSST, which will find 100× more pairs of galaxies, and pave a new line of study on the consistency of Type Ia supernovae in the same parent galaxies. Finally, we argue that it is unlikely some of these SNe are actually single, lensed SN with multiple images.},
doi = {10.3847/2041-8213/ab8735},
journal = {The Astrophysical Journal. Letters (Online)},
number = 1,
volume = 896,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Jun 10 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Wed Jun 10 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
}

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