- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/389/1871
- Title:
- Type Ia supernovae candidates from SDSS
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/389/1871
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In the course of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-I), a large fraction of the surveyed area was observed more than once due to field tiling overlap, usually at different epochs. We utilize some of these data to perform a supernova (SN) survey at a mean redshift of z=0.2. Our archival search, in ~5 per cent of the SDSS-I overlap area, produces 29 SN candidates clearly associated with host galaxies. Using the Bayesian photometric classification algorithm of Poznanski et al. (2002PASP..114..833P), and correcting for classification bias, we find 17 of the 29 candidates are likely Type Ia SNe.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/451/1973
- Title:
- Type Ia supernovae igh-velocity features
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/451/1973
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- 'High-velocity features' (HVFs) are spectral features in Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) that have minima indicating significantly higher (by greater than about 6000km/s) velocities than typical 'photospheric-velocity features' (PVFs). The PVFs are absorption features with minima indicating typical photospheric (i.e. bulk ejecta) velocities (usually~9000-15000km/s near B-band maximum brightness). In this work, we undertake the most in-depth study of HVFs ever performed. The data set used herein consists of 445 low-resolution optical and near-infrared (NIR) spectra (at epochs up to 5d past maximum brightness) of 210 low-redshift SNe Ia that follow the 'Phillips relation'. A series of Gaussian functions is fit to the data in order to characterize possible HVFs of CaII H&K, SiII {lambda}6355, and the CaII NIR triplet. The temporal evolution of the velocities and strengths of the PVFs and HVFs of these three spectral features is investigated, as are possible correlations with other SN Ia observables. We find that while HVFs of CaII are regularly observed (except in underluminous SNe Ia, where they are never found), HVFs of Siii {lambda}6355 are significantly rarer, and they tend to exist at the earliest epochs and mostly in objects with large photospheric velocities. It is also shown that stronger HVFs of SiII {lambda}6355 are found in objects that lack CII absorption at early times and that have red ultraviolet/optical colours near maximum brightness. These results lead to a self-consistent connection between the presence and strength of HVFs of SiII {lambda}6355 and many other mutually correlated SN Ia observables, including photospheric velocity.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/406/782
- Title:
- Type Ia supernovae luminosities
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/406/782
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Precision cosmology with Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) makes use of the fact that SN Ia luminosities depend on their light-curve shapes and colours. Using Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS) and other data, we show that there is an additional dependence on the global characteristics of their host galaxies: events of the same light-curve shape and colour are, on average, 0.08mag (~4.0{sigma}) brighter in massive host galaxies (presumably metal-rich) and galaxies with low specific star formation rates (sSFR).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/615/A68
- Title:
- Type Ia supernova luminosities
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/615/A68
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a fully consistent catalog of local and global properties of host galaxies of 882 Type Ia supernovae (SNIa) that were selected based on their light-curve properties, spanning the redshift range 0.01<z<1. This catalog corresponds to a preliminary version of the compilation sample and includes Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS) 5-year data, Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), and low-redshift surveys. We measured low- and moderate-redshift host galaxy photometry in SDSS stacked and single-epoch images and used spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting techniques to derive host properties such as stellar mass and U-V rest-frame colors; the latter are an indicator of the luminosity-weighted age of the stellar population in a galaxy. We combined these results with high-redshift host photometry from the SNLS survey and thus obtained a consistent catalog of host stellar masses and colors across a wide redshift range. We also estimated the local observed fluxes at the supernova location within a proper distance radius of 3kpc, corresponding to the SNLS imaging resolution, and transposed them into local U-V rest-frame colors. This is the first time that local environments surrounding SNIa have been measured at redshifts spanning the entire Hubble diagram. Selecting SNIa based on host photometry quality, we then performed cosmological fits using local color as a third standardization variable, for which we split the sample at the median value. We find a local color step significance of -0.091+/-0.013mag (7{sigma}), which effect is as significant as the maximum mass step effect. This indicates that the remaining luminosity variations in SNIa samples can be reduced with a third standardization variable that takes the environment into account. Correcting for the maximum mass step correction of -0.094+/-0.013mag, we find a local color effect of -0.057+/-0.012mag (5{sigma}), which shows that additional information is provided by the close environment of SNIa. Departures from the initial choices were investigated and showed that the local color effect is still present, although less pronounced. We discuss the possible implications for cosmology and find that using the local color in place of the stellar mass results in a change in the measured value of the dark energy equation-of-state parameter of 0.6%. Standardization using local U-V color in addition to stretch and color reduces the total dispersion in the Hubble diagram from 0.15 to 0.14mag. This will be of tremendous importance for the forthcoming SNIa surveys, and in particular for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), for which uncertainties on the dark energy equation of state will be comparable to the effects reported here.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/673/981
- Title:
- Type Ia supernova rates with HST ACS
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/673/981
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a new measurement of the volumetric rate of SNe Ia up to a redshift of 1.7, using the HST GOODS data combined with an additional HST data set covering the GOODS-North field collected in 2004. We employ a novel technique that does not require spectroscopic data for identifying SNe Ia (although spectroscopic measurements of redshifts are used for over half the sample); instead, we employ a Bayesian approach using only photometric data to calculate the probability that an object is an SN Ia. This Bayesian technique can easily be modified to incorporate improved priors on SN properties, and it is well-suited for future high-statistics SN searches in which spectroscopic follow-up of all candidates will be impractical. Here the method is validated on both ground- and space-based SN data having some spectroscopic follow-up. We combine our volumetric rate measurements with low-redshift SN data and fit to a number of possible models for the evolution of the SN Ia rate as a function of redshift. The data do not distinguish between a flat rate at redshift >0.5 and a previously proposed model, in which the Type Ia rate peaks at redshift ~1 due to a significant delay from star formation to the SN explosion. Except for the highest redshifts, where the signal-to-noise ratio is generally too low to apply this technique, this approach yields uncertainties that are smaller than or comparable to previous work.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/717/342
- Title:
- Type Ibc SNe in disturbed galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/717/342
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We compare the radial locations of 178 core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) to the R-band and H{alpha} light distributions of their host galaxies. When the galaxies are split into "disturbed" and "undisturbed" categories, a striking difference emerges. The disturbed galaxies have a central excess of CCSNe and this excess is almost completely dominated by supernovae of types Ib, Ic, and Ib/c, whereas type II supernovae dominate in all other environments. The difference cannot easily be explained by metallicity or extinction effects, and thus we propose that this is direct evidence for a stellar initial mass function that is strongly weighted toward high-mass stars, specifically in the central regions of disturbed galaxies.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AcA/58/293
- Title:
- Type-II and anomalous Cepheids in LMC
- Short Name:
- J/AcA/58/293
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In the second part of the OGLE-III Catalog of Variable Stars (OIII-CVS) we present 197 type II Cepheids and 83 anomalous Cepheids in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). The sample of type II Cepheids consists of 64 BL Her stars, 96 W Vir stars and 37 RV Tau stars. Anomalous Cepheids are divided into 62 fundamental-mode and 21 first-overtone pulsators. These are the largest samples of such types of variable stars detected anywhere outside the Galaxy.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/603/A70
- Title:
- Type II and anomalous Cepheids luminosities
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/603/A70
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Type II and anomalous Cepheids (ACs) are useful distance indicators when there are too few classical Cepheids or when RR Lyrae stars are too faint. Type II and ACs follow a period-luminosity relation as well, but they are less well-studied classes of objects. In this paper we study the sample of 335 Type II and ACs in the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds detected in OGLE-III data. The spectral energy distributions (SEDs) are constructed from photometric data available in the literature and fitted with a dust radiative transfer model, thereby leading to a determination of luminosity and effective temperature. In addition, a subsample of targets is investigated for possible binarity by looking for the light-time travel effect (LITE). Hertzsprung-Russell diagrams (HRD) are constructed and compared to evolutionary tracks and theoretical instability strips (ISs). In agreement with previous suggestions, the BL Her subclass can be explained by the evolution of ~0.5-0.6M_{sun}_ stars evolving off the zero-age horizontal branch and the ACs can be explained by the evolution of ~1.1-2.3M_{sun}_ stars. The evolution of the W Vir subclass is not clear. These objects are at higher luminosities than ACs and evolutionary tracks of ~2.5-4M_{sun}_ stars cross this region in the HRD, but the periods of the W Vir are longer than those of the short period classical Cepheids at these luminosities, which indicates the former have lower masses. A low-mass star experiencing a thermal pulse when the envelope mass is small can make a blue loop into the IS region of the W Vir stars. But the timescale is extremely short, so this is also no explanation for the W Vir as a class. A relation to binarity might be at the origin of the W Vir stars, which has already been explicitly suggested for the peculiar W Vir stars. For ~60% of the RV Tau and ~10% of the W Vir objects an infrared excess is detected from the SED fitting. A recent result is confirmed that stars exist with luminosities below that predicted from single-star evolution, which show a clear infrared excess, and the shape of the excess suggests a connection to binary evolution. The investigation of the LITE effect revealed 20 systems that appear to show periodic variations and may be new binaries, although this study requires follow-up. About 40 stars show significant period changes.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/386/2115
- Title:
- Type II Cepheid and RR Lyrae variables
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/386/2115
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Infrared and optical absolute magnitudes are derived for the type II Cepheids kappa Pav and VY Pyx using revised Hipparcos parallaxes and for kappa Pav, V553 Cen and SW Tau from pulsational parallaxes. Revised Hipparcos and HST parallaxes for RR Lyrae agree satisfactorily and are combined in deriving absolute magnitudes. Phase-corrected J, H and Ks mags are given for 142 Hipparcos RR Lyraes based on Two-Micron All-Sky Survey observations. Pulsation and trigonometrical parallaxes for classical Cepheids are compared to establish the best value for the projection factor (p) used in pulsational analyses.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/146/61
- Title:
- Type II Cepheid candidates. IV. Objects from NSVS
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/146/61
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have obtained VR photometry of 447 Cepheid variable star candidates with declinations north of -14{deg}30', most of which were identified using the Northern Sky Variability Survey (NSVS) data archive. Periods and other photometric properties were derived from the combination of our data with the NSVS data. Atmospheric parameters were determined for 81 of these stars from low-resolution spectra. The identification of type II Cepheids based on the data presented in all four papers in this series is discussed. On the basis of spectra, 30 type II Cepheids were identified while 53 variables were identified as cool, main sequence stars and 283 as red giants following the definitions in Paper III. An additional 30 type II Cepheids were identified on the basis of light curves. The present classifications are compared with those from the Machine-learned All Sky Automated Survey Classification Catalog for 174 stars in common.