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ZTF SN Ia DR2: Exploring SN Ia properties in the vicinity of under-dense environments

  • 1. ROR icon University of Clermont Auvergne
  • 2. ROR icon Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
  • 3. ROR icon Lancaster University
  • 4. ROR icon Trinity College Dublin
  • 5. ROR icon Stockholm University
  • 6. ROR icon Center for Particle Physics of Marseilles
  • 7. ROR icon Duke University
  • 8. ROR icon Institute of Space Sciences
  • 9. ROR icon Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya
  • 10. ROR icon Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies
  • 11. ROR icon California Institute of Technology
  • 12. ROR icon Infrared Processing and Analysis Center
  • 13. ROR icon Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Abstract

Context. The unprecedented statistics of detected Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) brought by the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) enable us to probe the impact of the large-scale structure (LSS) on the properties of these objects.

Aims. The goal of this paper is to explore the possible impact of the under-dense part of the LSS on the intrinsic SALT2 light-curve properties of SNe Ia and uncover possible biases in SN Ia analyses.

Methods. With a volume-limited selection of ZTF-Cosmo-DR2 SNe Ia overlapping with the SDSS-DR7 survey footprint, we investigated the distribution of their properties with regard to voids detected in the SDSS-DR7 galaxy sample. We further used Voronoi volumes as a proxy for local density environments within the LSS.

Results. We find a moderate dependency of the stretch on the localisation around the void centre and none when considering colour. The local Voronoi volumes mostly affect the fraction of low- and high-stretch supernovae.

Conclusions. With the presently available statistics, we consider that the impact of high- or low-local-density environment can be considered as a proxy for the colour of the host galaxy. Under-dense environments should not cause any biases in analyses of supernova.

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© 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

This work has been supported by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche of the French government through the program ANR-21-CE31-0016-03. This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement n 759194 – USNAC). GD, UB and JHT are supported by the UB is supported by the H2020 European Research Council grant no. 758638. L.G. acknowledges financial support from AGAUR, CSIC, MCIN and AEI 10.13039/501100011033 under projects PID2020-115253GA-I00, PIE 20215AT016, CEX2020-001058-M, and 2021-SGR-01270. 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 and the Vetenskapsrådet, the Swedish Research Council, project 2020-03444. Y.-L.K. has received funding from the Science and Technology Facilities Council [grant number ST/V000713/1]. T.E.M.B. acknowledges financial support from the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MCIN), the Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI) 10.13039/501100011033, and the European Union Next Generation EU/PRTR funds under the 2021 Juan de la Cierva program FJC2021-047124-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. 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 Grant No. AST-2034437 and a collaboration including 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, and IN2P3, France. Operations are conducted by COO, IPAC, and UW. SED 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. Funding for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has been provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Participating Institutions, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, the Japanese Monbukagakusho, and the Max Planck Society. The SDSS Website is http://www.sdss.org/. The SDSS is managed by the Astrophysical Research Consortium (ARC) for the Participating Institutions. The Participating Institutions are The University of Chicago, Fermilab, the Institute for Advanced Study, the Japan Participation Group, The Johns Hopkins University, Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy (MPIA), the Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics (MPA), New Mexico State University, University of Pittsburgh, Princeton University, the United States Naval Observatory, and the University of Washington.

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