Resolving the origins of supernovae: constraining progenitors with integral field spectroscopy

SNDTD - H2020-MSCA-IF-2019 - 839090

PI: Lluís Galbany; Advisor: Inma Domínguez

Summary and goals

Supernovae are cornerstone to understand the chemical and dynamical evolution of the Universe, cosmology and fundamental physics. In spite of the great advances achieved during the last decades, key questions remain open. We propose to determine the binary fraction of progenitors of core-collapse supernovae (CC- SNe) and resolve the turn-on time of type Ia supernova (SN Ia) progenitor systems through exploiting unique trove of integral-field spectroscopy (IFS) data and by developing a new spectral synthesis model to resolve stellar age distributions from 10–200 Myr. The proposer team has access to the largest set of IFS available from the most current leading surveys: MaNGA, CALIFA, and AMUSING. We will develop a new Bayesian single stellar population fitting method which will include at the same time information of the ionized gas and UV, to help constrain the youngest stellar populations, and NIR to better disentangle the degeneracy between age and reddening by dust. We will use IFS data of around thousand galaxies and the new method to recover the star formation histories at every single observed position including the SN position, and use the method presented in Maoz et al. (2010) to recover the delay-time distribution (DTD) of both CC SN and SNe Ia and measure: (i) the shape of the late CC SN DTD tail, to check whether populations of 50–200 Myr are typically associated to CCSN locations which would prove the binary progenitor scenario; and (ii) the lower turn-on age of the SN Ia DTD, to determine the age of the youngest stars producing SNeIa. Finally, we will test the role of different star formation histories at SN Ia locations affect their precision as cosmological distance tools. This proposal is for an ambitious, competitive, and accomplishable project that will lead to significant advances in our understanding of supernova progenitors and provide a tool for wide-ranging studies of stellar populations in the new era of IFS data.

The primary goals of this project are:

(i) to constrain the shape of the late CC SN DTD tail, and check whether populations of 50–200 Myr are typically associated with CC SN locations proving the binary progenitor scenario, which would be a major breakthrough in the field;

(ii) to determine the lower turn-on age of the type Ia SN DTD, the age of the youngest stars that can produce SNe Ia; and

(iii) to test whether the star formation history (SFH) at SN Ia locations has any implication in its use as cosmological distance indicators, which would potentially help reducing systematic uncertainties in their brightness standardization.

To achieve these objectives we will recover SFHs through single stellar population (SSP) fitting of spatially resolved IFS at SN locations for both CC and SNe Ia, and construct their DTDs.

Talks

  • Surveys of integral field spectroscopy of SN hosts
    Florida State University (Virtual), 18 September 2019
  • Constraining progenitors with integral field spectroscopy
    U. de Granada, 20 September 2019
  • Dones and ToDos in IFS surveys of SN hosts
    U. de Southampton, 23 September 2019 
  • IFS follow up of CSP SNIa host galaxies
    Carnegie Observatories Pasadena, October 2019
  • A SN in the borough: integral field spectroscopy of SN hosts
    UNAM México, 16 October 2019
  • The AMUSING survey
    CRISPINHO workshop Granada,  January 2020
  • The Legacy Andalusian Transient IFU Network Observatory (LATINO)
    CAHA workshop on instrumentation (virtual) Granada, March 2020
  • A SN in the borough: IFS of SN hosts
    NYU Abu Dhabi UAE, 22 April 2020 (Cancelled and postponed to 2022)
  • Type Ia SNe evolution studied with IFS: the low and high-z examples
    MAAT workshop (virtual), May 2020

Visits

  • October 2019: Instituto de Astronomía, UNAM, Mexico City.
    Developing the quality control pipeline for the AMUSING survey.
    Collaborator: Prof. Sebastián Sánchez.
  • October 2019: Carnegie Observatories, Pasadena.
    Preparation of the next stage of the Carnegie Supernova Project (CSP).
    Collaborator: Dr. Christopher Burns.

Data

PISCO

The PMAS/PPak Integral field Supernova hosts COmpilation (PISCO) is a survey of SN host galaxies using the 3.5m telescope at the Calar Alto Observatory

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AMUSING

The All-weather MUse Supernova Integral field Nearby Galaxies (AMUSING) survey uses de MUSE IFU at the 8.1m UT4 Very Large Telescope (VLT) at Cerro Paranal Observatory

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Hi-KIDS

The HI - KOALA IFS Dwarf galaxy Survey uses the KOALA+AAOmega at the AAT to obtain IFS of neaby galaxies from the Siding Spring Observatory

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Publications

  • [α/Fe] traced by H ii regions from the CALIFA survey: The connection between morphology and O/H patterns.
    Sánchez, S. F., et al., A&A 652 L10 [arXiv][ADS]
  • SN 2020cpg: ePESSTO+ follow-up of an energetic stripped envelope supernova.
    Medler, K., et al., MNRAS 506 1832 [arXiv][ADS]
  • Understanding the Extreme Luminosity of DES14X2fna.
    Grayling, M., et al., MNRAS 505 3950 [arXiv][ADS]
  • The DES SN Program: Modelling selection efficiency and observed core CCSN contamination.
    Vincenzi, M., et al., MNRAS 505 2819 [arXiv][ADS]
  • An Amusing Look at the Host of the Periodic Nuclear Transient ASASSN-14ko Reveals a Second AGN.
    Tucker, M. A., et al., MNRAS 506 6014 [arXiv][ADS]
  • SN2019hcc: A Type II Supernova Displaying Early O II Lines.
    Parrag, E., et al., MNRAS 506 4819 [arXiv][ADS]
  • Detection of metallicity correlations in 100 nearby galaxies.
    Li, Z., et al., MNRAS 504 5496 [arXiv][ADS]
  • The double-peaked type Ic Supernova 2019cad: another SN 2005bf-like object.
    Gutiérrez, C. P., et al., MNRAS 504 4907 [arXiv][ADS]
  • Evolution of the chemical enrichment and the Mass-Metallicity relation in CALIFA galaxies.
    Camps-Fariña, A., et al., MNRAS 504 3478 [arXiv][ADS]
  • The Exotic Type Ic-BL SN 2018gep: Blurring the Line Between SNe and Fast Optical Transients.
    Pritchard, T. A., et al., MNRAS 504 3478 [arXiv][ADS]
  • The first Hubble diagram and cosmological constraints using superluminous supernovae.
    Inserra, C., et al., MNRAS 504 2535 [arXiv][ADS]
  • Strong, Early Near Infrared Carbon Absorption in the Transitional Type Ia SN 2015bp/SNHunt281.
    Wyatt, S. D., et al., ApJ 914 57 [arXiv][ADS]
  • J-PLUS: The Star Formation Main Sequence and Rate Density at d.75 Mpc.
    Vilella-Rojo, G., et al., A&A 650 A68 [arXiv][ADS]
  • Luminous Type II Short-Plateau SN 2006Y, 2006ai, 2016egz: A Transitional Class from Stripped Massive RSG.
    Hiramatsu, D., et al., ApJ 913 55 [arXiv][ADS]
  • Core-collapse supernova subtypes in luminous infrared galaxies.
    Kankare, E., et al., A&A 649 A134 [arXiv][ADS]
  • SN 2017gci: a nearby Type I Superluminous Supernova with a bumpy tail.
    Fiore, A., et al., MNRAS 502 2120 [arXiv][ADS]
  • The Effect of Environment on Type Ia Supernovae in the Dark Energy Survey Three-Year Cosmological Sample.
    Kelsey, L., et al., MNRAS 501 4861 [arXiv][ADS]
  • The delay time distribution of supernovae from integral-field spectroscopy of nearby galaxies.
    Castrillo, A.; Ascasibar, Y.; Galbany, L., et al., MNRAS 501 3122 [arXiv][ADS]
  • SN 2013ai: a link between hydrogen rich and hydrogen poor core-collapse supernovae.
    Davis, S., et al., ApJ 909 145 [arXiv][ADS]
  • SN 2019muj - a well-observed Type Iax supernova that bridges the luminosity gap of the class.
    Barna, B., et al., MNRAS 501 1078 [arXiv][ADS]
  • Constraints on the rate of supernovae lasting for more than a year from Subaru/Hyper Suprime-Cam.
    Moriya, T. J., et al., ApJ 908 249 [arXiv][ADS]
  • NIR/optical observations of SNIc 2020oi and Ic-BL 2020bvc: CO, dust and high-velocity SN ejecta.
    Rho, J., et al., ApJ 908 232 [arXiv][ADS]
  • VESTIGE IX: A detail study of the ram pressure down to the scale of individual HII regions in IC 3476.
    Boselli, A.,et al., A&A 646 A139 [arXiv][ADS]
  • The early discovery of SN 2017ahn: signatures of persistent interaction in a fast declining Type II supernova.
    Tartaglia, L., et al., ApJ 907 52 [arXiv][ADS]
  • MUSE Reveals Extended Circumnuclear Outflows in the Seyfert 1 NGC 7469.
    Robleto-Orús, A. C., et al., ApJL 906 L6 [arXiv][ADS]
  • Supernova 2018cuf: A Type IIP supernova with a slow fall from plateau.
    Dong, Y.; Valenti, S.; Bostroem, K. A.; Sand, D. J.; Andrews, J. E.; Galbany, L., et al., ApJ 906 56 [arXiv][ADS]
  • A Template-based Approach to the Photometric Classification of SN 1991bg-like SNe in the SDSS-II Supernova Survey.
    Perrefort, D.; Zhang, Y.; Galbany, L., et al., ApJ 904 156 [arXiv][ADS]
  • First Cosmology Results using SNe Ia from the Dark Energy Survey: Overview, Performance, and SN Spectroscopy.
    Smith, M., et al., AJ 160 267 [arXiv][ADS]
  • Optical and Near-infrared Observations of the Nearby SN Ia 2017cbv.
    Wang, L., et al., ApJ 904 14 [arXiv][ADS]
  • Active learning with RESSPECT: Resource allocation for extragalactic astronomical transients.
    Kennamer, N., et al., IEEE-SSCI 2020 20266870 [arXiv][ADS]
  • Observational constraints on the optical and NIR emission from the NS-BH binary merger candidate S190814bv.
    Ackley, K., et al., A&A 643 113 [arXiv][ADS]
  • The stellar metallicity distribution function of galaxies in the CALIFA survey.
    Mejía-Narváez, A.; Sánchez, S. F.; Lacerda, E. A. D.; Carigi, L.; Galbany, L., et al., MNRAS 499 4838 [arXiv][ADS]
  • An outflow powers the optical rise of the nearby, fast-evolving tidal disruption event AT2019qiz.
    Nicholl, M., et al., MNRAS 499 482 [arXiv][ADS]
  • Direct Evidence of Two-component Ejecta in Supernova 2016gkg from Nebular Spectroscopy.
    Kuncarayakti, H., et al., ApJ 902 139 [arXiv][ADS]
  • Carnegie Supernova Project: Classification of Type Ia Supernovae.
    Burrow, A., et al., ApJ 901 154 [arXiv][ADS]
  • The Carnegie Supernova Project-I: Correlation between SNe Ia and Their Host Galaxies from Optical to NIR Bands.
    Uddin, S. A., et al., ApJ 901 143 [arXiv][ADS]
  • SN 2018gjx reveals that some SNe Ibn are SNe IIb exploding in dense circumstellar material.
    Prentice, S. J., et al., MNRAS 499 1450 [arXiv][ADS]
  • SN 2017ivv: two years of evolution of a transitional Type II supernova.
    Gutiérrez, C. P.; Pastorello, A.; Jerkstrand, A.; Galbany, L., et al., MNRAS 499 974 [arXiv][ADS]
  • The tidal disruption event AT 2018hyz - I. Double-peaked emission lines and a flat Balmer decrement.
    Short, P., et al., MNRAS 498 4119 [arXiv][ADS]
  • Carnegie Supernova Project II: The Slowest Rising Type Ia Supernova LSQ14fmg and Clues to the Origin of Super-Chandrasekhar/03fg-like Events.
    Hsiao, E. Y., et al., ApJ 900 140 [arXiv][ADS]
  • The Carnegie Supernova Project II. Observations of SN2014ab revealing a 2010jl-like SN IIn with pre-existing dust.
    Moriya, T. J., et al., A&A 641 148 [arXiv][ADS]
  • The host galaxies of 106 rapidly evolving transients discovered by the Dark Energy Survey.
    Wiseman, P.; Pursiainen, M.; Childress, M.; Swann, E.; Smith, M.; Galbany, L., et al., MNRAS 498 2575 [arXiv][ADS]
  • SN 2019ehk: A Double-peaked Ca-rich Transient with Luminous X-Ray Emission and Shock-ionized Spectral Features.
    Jacobson-Galán, W. V., et al., ApJ 898 166 [arXiv][ADS]
  • The Tidal Disruption Event AT 2018hyz II: Light-curve modelling of a partially disrupted star.
    Gomez, S., et al., MNRAS 497 1925 [arXiv][ADS]
  • The low-luminosity Type II SN 2016aqf: a well-monitored spectral evolution of the Ni/Fe abundance ratio.
    Müller-Bravo, T. E., et al., MNRAS 497 361 [arXiv][ADS]
  • The 16th Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release from the APOGEE-2 Southern Survey and Full Release of eBOSS Spectra.
    Ahumada, R., et al., ApJS 249 3 [arXiv][ADS]
  • The Carnegie Supernova Project II. Observations of the luminous red nova AT 2014ej.
    Stritzinger, M. D., et al., A&A 639 104 [arXiv][ADS]
  • The Carnegie Supernova Project II. Observations of the intermediate-luminosity red transient SNhunt120.
    Stritzinger, M. D., et al., A&A 639 103 [arXiv][ADS]
  • A measurement of the Hubble constant from Type II supernovae.
    de Jaeger, T.; Stahl, B.; Zheng, W.; Filippenko, A.; Riess, A.; Galbany, L., et al., MNRAS 496 3402 [arXiv][ADS]
  • Supernova Siblings: Assessing the Consistency of Properties of SNe Ia that Share the Same Parent Galaxies.
    Scolnic, D., et al., ApJ 896 13 [arXiv][ADS]
  • SN 2013aa and SN 2017cbv: Two Sibling Type Ia Supernovae in the Spiral Galaxy NGC 5643.
    Burns, C., et al., ApJ 895 118 [arXiv][ADS]
  • DES16C3cje: A low-luminosity, long-lived supernova.
    Gutiérrez, C. P., et al., MNRAS 496 95 [arXiv][ADS]
  • OzDES multi-object fibre spectroscopy for the Dark Energy Survey: results and second data release.
    Lidman, C., et al., MNRAS 496 19 [arXiv][ADS]
  • Studying Type II supernovae as cosmological standard candles using the Dark Energy Survey.
    de Jaeger, T.; Galbany, L., et al., MNRAS 495 1860 [arXiv][ADS]
  • Supernova host galaxies in the dark energy survey: I. Deep coadds, photometry, and stellar masses.
    Wiseman, P., et al., MNRAS 495 4040 [arXiv][ADS]
  • Studying the environment of AT 2018cow with MUSE.
    Lyman, J. D.; Galbany, L., et al., MNRAS 495 992 [arXiv][ADS]
  • Carnegie Supernova Project-II: A New Method to Photometrically Identify Sub-types of Extreme Type Ia Supernovae.
    Ashall, C., et al., ApJL 895 3 [arXiv][ADS]
  • Discovery and Rapid Follow-up Observations of the Unusual Type II SN 2018ivc in NGC 1068.
    Bostroem, K. A.; Valenti, S.; Sand, D. J.; Andrews, J. E.; Van Dyk, S. D.; Galbany, L., et al., ApJ 895 31 [arXiv][ADS]
  • The mystery of photometric twins DES17X1boj and DES16E2bjy.
    Pursiainen, M., et al., MNRAS 494 5576 [arXiv][ADS]
  • First cosmology results using SNe Ia from the Dark Energy Survey: the effect of host galaxy properties on SN luminosity.
    Smith, M., et al., MNRAS 494 4426 [arXiv][ADS]
  • SN 2016gsd: an unusually luminous and linear Type II supernova with high velocities.
    Reynolds, T. M., et al., MNRAS 493 1761 [arXiv][ADS]
  • The AMUSING++ Nearby Galaxy Compilation. I. Full Sample Characterization and Galactic-scale Outflow Selection.
    López-Cobá, C.; Sánchez, S. F.; Anderson, J. P.; Cruz-González, I.; Galbany, L., et al., AJ 159 167 [arXiv][ADS]
  • Asteroids' Size Distribution and Colors from HITS.
    Peña, J., et al., AJ 159 148 [arXiv][ADS]
  • H II regions in the CALIFA survey: I. catalogue presentation.
    Espinosa-Ponce, C.; Sánchez, S. F.; Morisset, C.; Barrera, J. K.; Galbany, L., et al., MNRAS 494 1622 [arXiv][ADS]
  • Nebular Spectra of 111 Type Ia Supernovae Disfavor Single Degenerate Progenitors.
    Tucker, M. A., et al., MNRAS 493 1044 [arXiv][ADS]
  • Arm-interarm O/H variations explored with MUSE: the role of spiral structure in the chemical enrichment of galaxies.
    Sánchez-Menguiano, L.; Sánchez, S. F.; Pérez, I.; Ruiz-Lara, T.; Galbany, L., et al., MNRAS 492 4149 [arXiv][ADS]
  • Galaxies hosting an AGN: a view from the CALIFA survey.
    Lacerda, E. A. D., et al., MNRAS 492 3073 [arXiv][ADS]
  • The rise and fall of an extraordinary Ca-rich transient. The discovery of ATLAS19dqr/SN 2019bkc.
    Prentice, S. J., et al., A&A 635 186 [arXiv][ADS]
  • Initial Evaluation of SNEMO2 and SNEMO7 Standardization Derived From Current Light Curves of Type Ia Supernovae.
    Rose, B. M., et al., ApJ 890 60 [arXiv][ADS]
  • Carnegie Supernova Project-II: Early observations and progenitor constraints of the Type Ib supernova LSQ13abf.
    Stritzinger, M. D., et al., A&A 634 21 [arXiv][ADS]
  • J-PLUS: tools to identify planetary nebulae and symbiotic stars in the J-PLUS and S-PLUS surveys.
    Gutiérrez-Soto, L. A., et al., A&A 633 123 [arXiv][ADS]
  • The 50-100 pc scale parent stellar populations of Type II supernovae and limitations of single star evolution models. 
    Schady, P.; Eldridge, J. J.; Anderson, J.; Chen, T. -W.; Galbany, L., et al., MNRAS 490 4515 [arXiv][ADS]
  • The Spectral Evolution of AT 2018dyb and the Presence of Metal Lines in Tidal Disruption Events. 
    Leloudas, G., et al., ApJ 887 218 [arXiv][ADS]
  • The CALIFA view on stellar angular momentum across the Hubble sequence. 
    Falcón-Barroso, J., et al., A&A 632 A59 [arXiv][ADS]
  • SN2018kzr: A Rapidly Declining Transient from the Destruction of a White Dwarf. 
    McBrien, O. R., et al., ApJL 885 23 [arXiv][ADS]
  • SN 2017gmr: An Energetic Type II-P Supernova with Asymmetries. 
    Andrews, J. E., et al., ApJ 885 43 [arXiv][ADS]
  • The Photometric LSST Astronomical Time-series Classification Challenge PLAsTiCC: Selection of a Performance Metric for Classification Probabilities Balancing Diverse Science Goals. 
    Malz, A. I.; Hložek, R.; Allam, T., Jr.; Bahmanyar, A.; Biswas, R.; Dai, M.; Galbany, L., et al., AJ 158 171 [arXiv][ADS]

Activities

2021

  • Aug 29-31, OBSERVING: [REMOTE] ePESSTO, La Silla Obs., Chile.
  • Jul 28-30, OBSERVING: [REMOTE] ePESSTO, La Silla Obs., Chile.
  • Jul 19-23: [VIRTUAL] LSST DESC Collaboration Meeting.
  • Jul 12-23: CRISP meeting, Lisbon.
  • Jul 6-7: [VIRTUAL] Roman ESA information sessions.
  • Jun 24-25: [VIRTUAL] CAVITY meeting.
  • Jun 21 - July 9: [VIRTUAL] Leadership and Negotiation Techniques. 
  • May 25-28: [VIRTUAL] OPC ESO P108 panel meeting.
  • Apr 26-29: [VIRTUAL] MOSTECH21 The future of MOS technologies
  • Apr 12-16: [VIRTUAL] GALSPEC21 ESO Extragalactic Spectroscopic Surveys: Past, Present and Future of Galaxy Evolution
  • Mar 2-3: [VIRTUAL] MAAT Data System Workshop.
  • Mar 1-3: [VIRTUAL] A Hubble Tension Headache, Southampton, UK.
  • Feb 1-5: [VIRTUAL] LSST DESC Collaboration Meeting.
  • Jan 18-29, OBSERVING: [REMOTE] ePESSTO, La Silla Obs., Chile.

2020

2019