The large-scale environment of thermonuclear and core-collapse supernovae
Abstract
The new generation of wide-field time-domain surveys has made it feasible to study the clustering of supernova (SN) host galaxies in the large-scale structure (LSS) for the first time. We investigate the LSS environment of SN populations, using 106 dark matter density realisations with a resolution of ∼3.8 Mpc, constrained by the 2M+ + galaxy survey. We limit our analysis to redshift z < 0.036, using samples of 498 thermonuclear and 782 core-collapse SNe from the Zwicky Transient Facility's Bright Transient Survey and Census of the Local Universe catalogues. We detect clustering of SNe with high significance; the observed clustering of the two SNe populations is consistent with each other. Further, the clustering of SN hosts is consistent with that of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey DR12 spectroscopic galaxy sample in the same redshift range. Using a tidal shear classifier, we classify the LSS into voids, sheets, filaments, and knots. We find that both SNe and SDSS galaxies are predominantly found in sheets and filaments. SNe are significantly under-represented in voids and over-represented in knots compared to the volume fraction in these structures. This work opens the potential for using forthcoming wide-field deep SN surveys as a complementary LSS probe.
Additional Information
© 2021 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Accepted 2021 December 1. Received 2021 December 1; in original form 2021 August 17. Published: 04 December 2021. We thank the anonymous referee for the useful comments. ET thanks Guilhem Lavaux and Suvodip Mukherjee for helpful discussions and access to the peculiar velocity data; and Florent Leclercq and Natalia Porqueres for providing test data during the early stages of this work. HVP thanks Daniel Mortlock for helpful discussions regarding the statistical formalism. This work has been enabled by support from the research project grant 'Understanding the Dynamic Universe' funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg under Dnr KAW 2018.0067. JJ acknowledges support by the Swedish Research Council (VR) under the project 2020-05143 – 'Deciphering the Dynamics of Cosmic Structure'. AG acknowledges support from the Swedish Research Council under Dnr VR 2020-03444. HVP was partially supported by the research project grant 'Fundamental Physics from Cosmological Surveys' funded by VR under Dnr 2017-04212. This work uses products of the Aquila Consortium (https://aquila-consortium.org). This study is based on observations obtained with the Samuel Oschin 48-inch Telescope at the Palomar Observatory as part of the Zwicky Transient Facility project. ZTF is supported by the National Science Foundation under grant number AST-1440341 and a collaboration including Caltech, IPAC, the Weizmann Institute for Science, the Oskar Klein Centre at Stockholm University, the University of Maryland, the University of Washington, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, and Humboldt University, Los Alamos National Laboratories, the TANGO Consortium of Taiwan, the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories. Operations are conducted by COO, IPAC, and UW. This work makes use of public data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Funding for SDSS-III has been provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Participating Institutions, the National Science Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science. The SDSS-III web site is http://www.sdss3.org/. SDSS-III is managed by the Astrophysical Research Consortium for the Participating Institutions of the SDSS-III Collaboration including the University of Arizona, the Brazilian Participation Group, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Florida, the French Participation Group, the German Participation Group, Harvard University, the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, the Michigan State/Notre Dame/JINA Participation Group, Johns Hopkins University, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, New Mexico State University, New York University, Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, University of Portsmouth, Princeton University, the Spanish Participation Group, University of Tokyo, University of Utah, Vanderbilt University, University of Virginia, University of Washington, and Yale University. Author Contributions: The main roles of the authors were, using the CRediT (Contribution Roles Taxonomy) system (https://authorservices.wiley.com/author-resources/Journal-Authors/open-access/credit.html): ET: Conceptualisation, methodology, software, formal analysis, writing – original draft. JJ: Data, software, resources, validation, supervision, writing – review, funding acquisition. AG: Data, conceptualisation, writing – review & editing, supervision, funding acquisition. HVP: Conceptualisation, methodology, software, validation, writing – review & editing, funding acquisition. In alphabetical order: IA, MWC, CUF, MJG, MK, SRK, AAM, RR, JS, AT: Data curation. Data Availability: The SN data underlying this article are available in https://nextcloud.fysik.su.se/s/nnwsFaGFeKqpx7Q.Attached Files
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- Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
- KAW 2018.0067
- Swedish Research Council
- 2020-05143
- Swedish Research Council
- 2020-03444
- Swedish Research Council
- 2017-04212
- NSF
- AST-1440341
- ZTF partner institutions
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- Participating Institutions
- Department of Energy (DOE)
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- Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC), Astronomy Department, Zwicky Transient Facility, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences (GPS)