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TY - JOUR
T1 - ZTF SN Ia DR2
T2 - An environmental study of Type Ia supernovae using host galaxy image decomposition
AU - Senzel, R.
AU - Maguire, K.
AU - Burgaz, U.
AU - Dimitriadis, G.
AU - Rigault, M.
AU - Goobar, A.
AU - Johansson, J.
AU - Smith, M.
AU - Deckers, M.
AU - Galbany, L.
AU - Ginolin, M.
AU - Harvey, L.
AU - Kim, Y.-L.
AU - Muller-Bravo, T.E.
AU - Nugent, P.
AU - Rosnet, P.
AU - Sollerman, J.
AU - Terwel, J.H.
AU - Laher, R.R.
AU - Reiley, D.
AU - Rusholme, B.
PY - 2025/2/28
Y1 - 2025/2/28
N2 - The second data release of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) observed by the Zwicky Transient Facility has provided a homogeneous sample of 3628 SNe Ia with photometric and spectral information. This unprecedented sample size enables us to better explore our currently tentative understanding of the dependence of the host environment on SN Ia properties. In this paper, we make use of two-dimensional image decomposition to model the host galaxies of SNe Ia. We model elliptical galaxies as well as disc and spiral galaxies with or without central bulges and bars. This allows for the categorisation of SN Ia based on their morphological host environment, as well as the extraction of intrinsic galaxy properties corrected for both cosmological and atmospheric effects, through point-spread-function (PSF) convolution. We find that although this image decomposition technique leads to a significant bias towards elliptical galaxies in our final sample of processed galaxies, the overall results are still robust. By successfully modelling 728 host galaxies, we find that the photometric properties of SNe Ia found in discs and in elliptical galaxies correlate fundamentally differently with their host environment. We identified strong linear relations between light-curve stretch and our model-derived galaxy colour for both the elliptical (16.8ÏÂ) and disc (5.1ÏÂ) subpopulations of SNe Ia. Lower-stretch SNe Ia are found in redder environments, which we identify as an age and/or metallicity effect. Within the subpopulation of SNe Ia found in disc-containing galaxies, we find a significant linear trend (6.1ÏÂ) between light-curve stretch and model-derived local r-band surface brightness, which we link to the age and metallicity gradients found in disc galaxies. SN Ia colour shows little correlation with the host environment, as is seen in the literature. We do identify a possible dust effect in our model-derived surface brightness (3.3ÏÂ) for SNe Ia in disc galaxies.
AB - The second data release of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) observed by the Zwicky Transient Facility has provided a homogeneous sample of 3628 SNe Ia with photometric and spectral information. This unprecedented sample size enables us to better explore our currently tentative understanding of the dependence of the host environment on SN Ia properties. In this paper, we make use of two-dimensional image decomposition to model the host galaxies of SNe Ia. We model elliptical galaxies as well as disc and spiral galaxies with or without central bulges and bars. This allows for the categorisation of SN Ia based on their morphological host environment, as well as the extraction of intrinsic galaxy properties corrected for both cosmological and atmospheric effects, through point-spread-function (PSF) convolution. We find that although this image decomposition technique leads to a significant bias towards elliptical galaxies in our final sample of processed galaxies, the overall results are still robust. By successfully modelling 728 host galaxies, we find that the photometric properties of SNe Ia found in discs and in elliptical galaxies correlate fundamentally differently with their host environment. We identified strong linear relations between light-curve stretch and our model-derived galaxy colour for both the elliptical (16.8ÏÂ) and disc (5.1ÏÂ) subpopulations of SNe Ia. Lower-stretch SNe Ia are found in redder environments, which we identify as an age and/or metallicity effect. Within the subpopulation of SNe Ia found in disc-containing galaxies, we find a significant linear trend (6.1ÏÂ) between light-curve stretch and model-derived local r-band surface brightness, which we link to the age and metallicity gradients found in disc galaxies. SN Ia colour shows little correlation with the host environment, as is seen in the literature. We do identify a possible dust effect in our model-derived surface brightness (3.3ÏÂ) for SNe Ia in disc galaxies.
U2 - 10.1051/0004-6361/202451239
DO - 10.1051/0004-6361/202451239
M3 - Journal article
VL - 694
JO - Astronomy and Astrophysics
JF - Astronomy and Astrophysics
SN - 1432-0746
M1 - A14
ER -