Searching for Bumps in the Cosmological Road: Do Type Ia Supernovae with Early Excesses Have Biased Hubble Residuals?

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Autores principales: Ye, Christine, Jones, David O., Hoogendam, Willem B., Shappee, Benjamin J., Dhawan, Suhail, Sharief, Sammy N.
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author Ye, Christine
Jones, David O.
Hoogendam, Willem B.
Shappee, Benjamin J.
Dhawan, Suhail
Sharief, Sammy N.
author_facet Ye, Christine
Jones, David O.
Hoogendam, Willem B.
Shappee, Benjamin J.
Dhawan, Suhail
Sharief, Sammy N.
contents Flux excesses in the early time light curves of Type Ia supernovae (SNe\,Ia) are predicted by multiple theoretical models and have been observed in a number of nearby SNe\,Ia over the last decade. However, the astrophysical processes that cause these excesses may affect their use as standardizable candles for cosmological parameter measurements. In this paper, we perform a systematic search for early-time excesses in SNe\,Ia observed by the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) to study whether SNe\,Ia with these excesses yield systematically different Hubble residuals. We analyze two compilations of ZTF SN\,Ia light curves from its first year of operations: 127 high-cadence light curves from \citet{Yao19} and 305 light curves from the ZTF cosmology data release of \citet{Dhawan22}. We detect significant early-time excesses for 17 SNe\,Ia in these samples and find that the excesses have an average $g-r$ color of $0.06\pm0.09$~mag; we do not find a clear preference for blue excesses as predicted by several models. Using the SALT3 model, we measure Hubble residuals for these two samples and find that excess-having SNe\,Ia may have lower Hubble residuals (HR) after correcting for shape, color, and host-galaxy mass, at $\sim$2-3$σ$ significance; our baseline result is $ΔHR = -0.056 \pm 0.026$~mag ($2.2 σ$). We compare the host-galaxy masses of excess-having and no-excess SNe\,Ia and find they are consistent, though at marginal significance excess-having SNe\,Ia may prefer lower-mass hosts. Additional discoveries of early excess SNe\,Ia will be a powerful way to understand potential biases in SN\,Ia cosmology and probe the physics of SN\,Ia progenitors.
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spellingShingle Searching for Bumps in the Cosmological Road: Do Type Ia Supernovae with Early Excesses Have Biased Hubble Residuals?
Ye, Christine
Jones, David O.
Hoogendam, Willem B.
Shappee, Benjamin J.
Dhawan, Suhail
Sharief, Sammy N.
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Flux excesses in the early time light curves of Type Ia supernovae (SNe\,Ia) are predicted by multiple theoretical models and have been observed in a number of nearby SNe\,Ia over the last decade. However, the astrophysical processes that cause these excesses may affect their use as standardizable candles for cosmological parameter measurements. In this paper, we perform a systematic search for early-time excesses in SNe\,Ia observed by the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) to study whether SNe\,Ia with these excesses yield systematically different Hubble residuals. We analyze two compilations of ZTF SN\,Ia light curves from its first year of operations: 127 high-cadence light curves from \citet{Yao19} and 305 light curves from the ZTF cosmology data release of \citet{Dhawan22}. We detect significant early-time excesses for 17 SNe\,Ia in these samples and find that the excesses have an average $g-r$ color of $0.06\pm0.09$~mag; we do not find a clear preference for blue excesses as predicted by several models. Using the SALT3 model, we measure Hubble residuals for these two samples and find that excess-having SNe\,Ia may have lower Hubble residuals (HR) after correcting for shape, color, and host-galaxy mass, at $\sim$2-3$σ$ significance; our baseline result is $ΔHR = -0.056 \pm 0.026$~mag ($2.2 σ$). We compare the host-galaxy masses of excess-having and no-excess SNe\,Ia and find they are consistent, though at marginal significance excess-having SNe\,Ia may prefer lower-mass hosts. Additional discoveries of early excess SNe\,Ia will be a powerful way to understand potential biases in SN\,Ia cosmology and probe the physics of SN\,Ia progenitors.
title Searching for Bumps in the Cosmological Road: Do Type Ia Supernovae with Early Excesses Have Biased Hubble Residuals?
topic High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.02926