- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/852/81
- Title:
- 17 PS1 superluminous SNe LCs + classif. spectra
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/852/81
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present light curves and classification spectra of 17 hydrogen-poor superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) from the Pan-STARRS1 Medium Deep Survey (PS1 MDS). Our sample contains all objects from the PS1 MDS sample with spectroscopic classification that are similar to either of the prototypes SN 2005ap or SN 2007bi, without an explicit limit on luminosity. With a redshift range 0.3<z<1.6, PS1 MDS is the first SLSN sample primarily probing the high-redshift population; our multifilter PS1 light curves probe the rest- frame UV emission, and hence the peak of the spectral energy distribution. We measure the temperature evolution and construct bolometric light curves, and find peak luminosities of (0.5-5)x10^44^erg/s and lower limits on the total radiated energies of (0.3-2)x10^51^erg. The light curve shapes are diverse, with both rise and decline times spanning a factor of ~5 and several examples of double-peaked light curves. When correcting for the flux-limited nature of our survey, we find a median peak luminosity at 4000{AA} of M_4000_=-21.1mag and a spread of {sigma}=0.7mag.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/573/306
- Title:
- Radio emission from supernovae
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/573/306
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report Very Large Array radio observations of 29 supernovae (SNe) with ages ranging from 10 days to about 90yr past explosion. These observations significantly contribute to the existing data pool on such objects. Included are detections of known radio SNe 1950B, 1957D, 1970G, and 1983N, the suspected radio SN 1923A, and the possible radio SN 1961V. None of the remaining 23 observations resulted in detections, providing further evidence to support the observed trend that most SNe are not detectable radio emitters. To investigate the apparent lack of radio emission from the SNe reported here, we have followed standard practice and used Chevalier's "standard model" to derive (upper limits to) the mass-loss rates for the supernova progenitors. These upper limits to the fluxes are consistent with a lack of circumstellar material needed to provide detectable radio emission for SNe at these ages and distances. Comparison of the radio luminosities of these supernovae as a function of age past explosion to other well-observed radio SNe indicates that the Type II SNe upper limits are more consistent with the extrapolated light curves of SN 1980K than of SN 1979C, suggesting that SN 1980K may be a more typical radio emitter than SN 1979C. For completeness, we have included an appendix where the results of analyses of the non-SN radio sources are presented. Where possible, we make (tentative) identifications of these sources using various methods.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/820/33
- Title:
- R-band light curves of type II supernovae
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/820/33
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- During the first few days after explosion, Type II supernovae (SNe) are dominated by relatively simple physics. Theoretical predictions regarding early-time SN light curves in the ultraviolet (UV) and optical bands are thus quite robust. We present, for the first time, a sample of 57 R-band SN II light curves that are well-monitored during their rise, with >5 detections during the first 10 days after discovery, and a well-constrained time of explosion to within 1-3 days. We show that the energy per unit mass (E/M) can be deduced to roughly a factor of five by comparing early-time optical data to the 2011 model of Rabinak & Waxman, while the progenitor radius cannot be determined based on R-band data alone. We find that SN II explosion energies span a range of E/M=(0.2-20)x10^51^erg/(10M_{sun}), and have a mean energy per unit mass of <E/M>=0.85x10^51^erg/(10M_{sun}), corrected for Malmquist bias. Assuming a small spread in progenitor masses, this indicates a large intrinsic diversity in explosion energy. Moreover, E/M is positively correlated with the amount of ^56^Ni produced in the explosion, as predicted by some recent models of core-collapse SNe. We further present several empirical correlations. The peak magnitude is correlated with the decline rate ({Delta}m_15_), the decline rate is weakly correlated with the rise time, and the rise time is not significantly correlated with the peak magnitude. Faster declining SNe are more luminous and have longer rise times. This limits the possible power sources for such events.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/811/117
- Title:
- R-band PTF observations of SNe IIb
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/811/117
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The progenitor stars of several Type IIb supernovae (SNe) show indications of extended hydrogen envelopes. These envelopes might be the outcome of luminous energetic pre-explosion events, so-called precursor eruptions. We use the Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) pre-explosion observations of a sample of 27 nearby SNe IIb to look for such precursors during the final years prior to the SN explosion. No precursors are found when combining the observations in 15-day bins, and we calculate the absolute-magnitude-dependent upper limit on the precursor rate. At the 90% confidence level, SNe IIb have on average <0.86 precursors as bright as an absolute R-band magnitude of -14 in the final 3.5 years before the explosion and <0.56 events over the final year. In contrast, precursors among SNe IIn have a >~5 times higher rate. The kinetic energy required to unbind a low-mass stellar envelope is comparable to the radiated energy of a few-weeks-long precursor that would be detectable for the closest SNe in our sample. Therefore, mass ejections, if they are common in such SNe, are radiatively inefficient or have durations longer than months. Indeed, when using 60-day bins, a faint precursor candidate is detected prior to SN 2012cs (~2% false-alarm probability). We also report the detection of the progenitor of SN 2011dh that does not show detectable variability over the final two years before the explosion. The suggested progenitor of SN 2012P is still present, and hence is likely a compact star cluster or an unrelated object.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/529/L4
- Title:
- Reddening law of type Ia supernovae
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/529/L4
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We employ 76 type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) with optical spectrophotometry within 2.5 days of B-band maximum light obtained by the Nearby Supernova Factory to derive the impact of Si and Ca features on the supernovae intrinsic luminosity and determine a dust reddening law. We use the equivalent width of SiII {lambda}4131 in place of the light curve stretch to account for first-order intrinsic luminosity variability. The resulting empirical spectral reddening law exhibits strong features that are associated with CaII and SiII {lambda}6355. After applying a correction based on the CaII H&K equivalent width we find a reddening law consistent with a Cardelli extinction law. Using the same input data, we compare this result to synthetic rest-frame UBVRI-like photometry to mimic literature observations.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/148/13
- Title:
- Redshifts of 65 CANDELS supernovae
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/148/13
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS) was a multi-cycle treasury program on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) that surveyed a total area of ~0.25deg^2^ with ~900 HST orbits spread across five fields over three years. Within these survey images we discovered 65 supernovae (SNe) of all types, out to z~2.5. We classify ~24 of these as Type Ia SNe (SNe Ia) based on host galaxy redshifts and SN photometry (supplemented by grism spectroscopy of six SNe). Here we present a measurement of the volumetric SN Ia rate as a function of redshift, reaching for the first time beyond z=2 and putting new constraints on SN Ia progenitor models. Our highest redshift bin includes detections of SNe that exploded when the universe was only ~3Gyr old and near the peak of the cosmic star formation history. This gives the CANDELS high redshift sample unique leverage for evaluating the fraction of SNe Ia that explode promptly after formation (<500Myr). Combining the CANDELS rates with all available SN Ia rate measurements in the literature we find that this prompt SN Ia fraction is f_p_=0.53_stat0.10sys0.26_^+/-0.09 +/-0.10^, consistent with a delay time distribution that follows a simple t^-1^ power law for all times t>40Myr. However, mild tension is apparent between ground-based low-z surveys and space-based high-z surveys. In both CANDELS and the sister HST program CLASH (Cluster Lensing And Supernova Survey with Hubble), we find a low rate of SNe Ia at z>1. This could be a hint that prompt progenitors are in fact relatively rare, accounting for only 20% of all SN Ia explosions--though further analysis and larger samples will be needed to examine that suggestion.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/742/89
- Title:
- Relations between spectra and colors of SNe Ia
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/742/89
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- To understand how best to use observations of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) to obtain precise and accurate distances, we investigate the relations between spectra of SNe Ia and their intrinsic colors. Using a sample of 1630 optical spectra of 255 SNe, based primarily on data from the CfA Supernova Program, we examine how the velocity evolution and line strengths of SiII(6355) and CaII H&K are related to the B-V color at peak brightness. We find that the maximum-light velocity of SiII6355 and CaII H&K and the maximum-light pseudo-equivalent width of SiII6355 are correlated with intrinsic color, with intrinsic color having a linear relation with the SiII6355 measurements. CaII H&K does not have a linear relation with intrinsic color, but lower-velocity SNe tend to be intrinsically bluer. Combining the spectroscopic measurements does not improve intrinsic color inference. The intrinsic color scatter is larger for higher-velocity SNe Ia - even after removing a linear trend with velocity - indicating that lower-velocity SNe Ia are more "standard crayons". Employing information derived from SN Ia spectra has the potential to improve the measurements of extragalactic distances and the cosmological properties inferred from them.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/848/56
- Title:
- Relationships between SNe Ia and the host galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/848/56
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- 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{sigma}), and decline more rapidly in massive hosts (significance >9{sigma}) and in hosts with low specific star formation rates (significance >8{sigma}). 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 ({sigma}_int_=0.08+/-0.01) in luminosity after standardization.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/437/789
- Title:
- Restframe I-band light curves of SN Ia
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/437/789
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a novel technique for fitting restframe I-band light curves on a data set of 42 type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). Using the result of the fit, we construct a Hubble diagram with 26 SNe from the subset at 0.01<z<0.1. Adding two SNe at z~0.5 yields results consistent with a flat Lambda-dominated "concordance universe'' (Omega_M_,Omega_Lambda_)=(0.25, 0.75). For one of these, SN 2000fr, new near infrared data are presented. The high redshift supernova NIR data are also used to test for systematic effects in the use of SNe Ia as distance estimators. A flat, Lambda=0, universe where the faintness of supernovae at z~0.5 is due to grey dust homogeneously distributed in the intergalactic medium is disfavoured based on the high-z Hubble diagram using this small data-set. However, the uncertainties are large and no firm conclusion may be drawn. We explore the possibility of setting limits on intergalactic dust based on B-I and B-V colour measurements, and conclude that about 20 well measured SNe are needed to give statistically significant results. We also show that the high redshift restframe I-band data points are better fit by light curve templates that show a prominent second peak, suggesting that they are not intrinsically underluminous.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/317/423
- Title:
- Revised photometry of SNIa
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/317/423
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Re-calibrated B magnitudes and (B-V) colors for the stars of the local sequences used at Asiago in the seventies as reference for the SN photometry are given in table3. For comparison, also the Asiago original data are given. Identification charts are found in the original papers.
