ZTF SN Ia DR2: Cosmology-independent constraints on Type Ia supernova standardisation from supernova siblings
Creators
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Dhawan, S.1
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Mortsell, E.2
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Johansson, J.2
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Goobar, A.2
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Rigault, M.3
- Smith, M.3, 4
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Maguire, K.5
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Nordin, J.6
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Dimitriadis, G.5
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Nugent, P. E.7, 8
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Galbany, L.9, 10
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Sollerman, J.2
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Kenworthy, W. D.2
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de Jaeger, T.11
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Terwel, J. H.5
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Kim, Y.-L.4
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Burgaz, U.5
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Rosnet, P.12
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Helou, G.13
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Purdum, J.13
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Groom, S. L.13
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Laher, R.13
- Healy, B.14, 15
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University of Cambridge
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Stockholm University
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University of Lyon System
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Lancaster University
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Trinity College Dublin
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Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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University of California, Berkeley
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Institute of Space Sciences
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Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya
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Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies
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University of Clermont Auvergne
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Infrared Processing and Analysis Center
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California Institute of Technology
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University of Minnesota
Abstract
Understanding Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) and the empirical standardisation relations that make them excellent distance indicators is vital to improving cosmological constraints. SN Ia ‘siblings, i.e. two or more SNe Ia in the same host or parent galaxy, offer a unique way to infer the standardisation relations and their scatter across the population. We analysed a sample of 25 SN Ia pairs observed homogeneously by the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) to infer the SNe Ia light curve width-luminosity and colour-luminosity parameters, α and β. Using the pairwise constraints from siblings, which allow for a scatter in the standardisation relations, we found α = 0.218 ± 0.055 and β = 3.084 ± 0.312, respectively, with a dispersion in α and β of ≤0.195 and ≤0.923, respectively, at a 95% confidence level. While the median dispersion is large, the values within ∼1σ are consistent with no dispersion. Hence, fitting for a single global standardisation relation, we found α = 0.228 ± 0.029 and β = 3.160 ± 0.191. We also found a very small intrinsic scatter of the siblings sample σint ≤ 0.10 mag at a 95% confidence level compared to σint = 0.22 ± 0.04 mag when computing the scatter using the Hubble residuals without comparing them as siblings. When comparing to large samples used in cosmological measurements, we found an α that is ∼2-3 σ higher, while the β values are consistent. The high α is driven by low x1 pairs, potentially suggesting that the slow and fast declining SN Ia have different slopes for the width-luminosity relation. We found no difference in α and β when dividing the sample by host galaxy mass. The finding of a higher α with increased statistics can be confirmed or refuted through upcoming time-domain surveys. If confirmed, this finding can improve the cosmological inference from SNe Ia and be used to infer properties of the progenitors for subpopulations of SNe Ia.
Copyright and License
© The Authors 2025. Open Access article, published by EDP Sciences, under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Acknowledgement
SD acknowledges support from the Marie Curie Individual Fellowship under grant ID 890695, UKRI Horizon Europe Underwriting EP/Z000475/1 and a Junior Research Fellowship at Lucy Cavendish College. This work has been supported by the research project grant “Understanding the Dynamic Universe” funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation under Dnr KAW 2018.0067. AG acknowledges support from Vetenskapsrådet, the Swedish Research Council, project 2020-03444. This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement n°759194 – USNAC) L.G. acknowledges financial support from the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MCIN), the Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI) 10.13039/501100011033, and the European Social Fund (ESF) “Investing in your future” under the 2019 Ramón y Cajal program RYC2019-027683-I and the PID2020-115253GA-I00 HOSTFLOWS project, from Centro Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) under the PIE project 20215AT016, and the program Unidad de Excelencia María de Maeztu CEX2020-001058-M, and from the Departament de Recerca i Universitats de la Generalitat de Catalunya through the 2021-SGR-01270 grant. JHT and KM acknowledge support from EU H2020 ERC grant no. 758638. Based on observations obtained with the Samuel Oschin Telescope 48-inch and the 60-inch Telescope at the Palomar Observatory as part of the Zwicky Transient Facility project. ZTF is supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants No. AST-1440341 and AST-2034437 and a collaboration including partners Caltech, IPAC, the Weizmann Institute of Science, the Oskar Klein Center at Stockholm University, the University of Maryland, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron and Humboldt University, the TANGO Consortium of Taiwan, the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, Trinity College Dublin, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, IN2P3, University of Warwick, Ruhr University Bochum, Northwestern University and former partners the University of Washington, Los Alamos National Laboratories, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories. Operations are conducted by COO, IPAC, and UW. The Spectral Energy Distribution Machine is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1106171. The ZTF forced-photometry service was funded under the Heising-Simons Foundation grant #12540303 (PI: Graham). The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, through both the Data-Driven Investigator Program and a dedicated grant, provided critical funding for SkyPortal.
Data Availability
All data associated with this publication is made available via github at https://github.com/ZwickyTransientFacility/ztfcosmo.git as part of the ZTF second data release of Type Ia supernovae.
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- Is new version of
- Discussion Paper: arXiv:2406.01434 (arXiv)
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- Dataset: https://github.com/ZwickyTransientFacility/ztfcosmo.git (URL)
Funding
- Marie Curie
- 890695
- UK Research and Innovation
- EP/Z000475/1
- University of Cambridge
- Lucy Cavendish College -
- Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
- KAW 2018.0067
- Swedish Research Council
- 2020-03444
- European Research Council
- 759194
- Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades
- Unidad de Excelencia María de Maeztu CEX2020-001058-M
- Agencia Estatal de Investigación
- PID2020-115253GA-I00
- European Commission
- Ramón y Cajal Program RYC2019-027683-I
- Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
- 20215AT016
- European Research Council
- 758638
- National Science Foundation
- AST-1440341
- National Science Foundation
- AST-2034437
- National Science Foundation
- 1106171
- Heising-Simons Foundation
- 12540303
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Dates
- Accepted
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2025-03-26
- Available
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2025-10-24Published online