학술논문

Probing type Ia supernova properties using bolometric light curves from the Carnegie Supernova Project and the CfA Supernova Group.
Document Type
Article
Source
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Feb2019, Vol. 483 Issue 1, p628-647. 20p.
Subject
*SUPERNOVAE
*CATACLYSMIC variable stars
*PHOTOMETRY
*WHITE dwarf stars
*DARK energy
Language
ISSN
0035-8711
Abstract
We present bolometric light curves constructed from multiwavelength photometry of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) from the Carnegie Supernova Project and the CfA Supernova Group, using near-infrared observations to provide robust constraints on host galaxy dust extinction. This set of light curves form a well-measured reference set for comparison with theoretical models. Ejected mass and synthesized 56Ni mass are inferred for each SN Ia from its bolometric light curve using a semi-analytic Bayesian light curve model, and fitting formulas provided in terms of light curve width parameters from the salt2 and SNooPy light curve fitters. A weak bolometric width–luminosity relation is confirmed, along with a correlation between ejected mass and the bolometric light curve width. SNe Ia likely to have sub-Chandrasekhar ejected masses belong preferentially to the broad-line and cool-photosphere spectroscopic subtypes, and have higher photospheric velocities and populate older, higher mass host galaxies than SNe Ia consistent with Chandrasekhar-mass explosions. Two peculiar events, SN 2006bt and SN 2006ot, have normal peak luminosities but appear to have super-Chandrasekhar ejected masses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]