A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal
Supernova host galaxies in the dark energy survey: I. Deep coadds, photometry, and stellar masses
Authors: Wiseman P, Smith M, Childress M, Kelsey L, Moller A, Gupta RR, Swann E, Angus CR, Brout D, Davis TM, Foley RJ, Frohmaier C, Galbany L, Gutierrez CP, Inserra C, Kessler R, Lewis GF, Lidman C, Macaulay E, Nichol RC, Pursiainen M, Sako M, Scolnic D, Sommer NE, Sullivan M, Tucker BE, Abbott TMC, Aguena M, Allam S, Avila S, Bertin E, Brooks D, Buckley-Geer E, Burke DL, Rosell AC, Carollo D, Kind MC, da Costa LN, De Vicente J, Desai S, Diehl HT, Doel P, Eifler TF, Everett S, Fosalba P, Frieman J, Garcia-Bellido J, Gaztanaga E, Gerdes DW, Gill MSS, Glazebrook K, Gruendl RA, Gschwend J, Hartley WG, Hinton SR, Hollowood DL, Honscheid K, James DJ, Kuehn K, Kuropatkin N, Lima M, Maia MAG, March M, Martini P, Melchior P, Menanteau F, Miquel R, Ogando RLC, Paz-Chinchon F, Plazas AA, Romer AK, Roodman A, Sanchez E, Scarpine V, Serrano S, Suchyta E, Swanson MEC, Tarle G, Thomas D, Tucker DL, Varga TN, Walker AR, Wilkinson RD
Publisher: OXFORD UNIV PRESS
Publication year: 2020
Journal:Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Journal name in sourceMONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Journal acronym: MON NOT R ASTRON SOC
Volume: 495
Issue: 4
First page : 4040
Last page: 4060
Number of pages: 21
ISSN: 0035-8711
eISSN: 1365-2966
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa1302
The 5-yr Dark Energy Survey Supernova Programme (DES-SN) is one of the largest and deepest transient surveys to date in terms of volume and number of supernovae. Identifying and characterizing the host galaxies of transients plays a key role in their classification, the study of their formation mechanisms, and the cosmological analyses. To derive accurate host galaxy properties, we create depth-optimized coadds using single-epoch DES-SN images that are selected based on sky and atmospheric conditions. For each of the five DES-SN seasons, a separate coadd is made from the other four seasons such that each SN has a corresponding deep coadd with no contaminating SN emission. The coadds reach limiting magnitudes of order similar to 27 in g band, and have a much smaller magnitude uncertainty than the previous DES-SN host templates, particularly for faint objects. We present the resulting multiband photometry of host galaxies for samples of spectroscopically confirmed type Ia (SNe Ia), core-collapse (CCSNe), and superluminous (SLSNe) as well as rapidly evolving transients (RETs) discovered by DES-SN. We derive host galaxy stellar masses and probabilistically compare stellar-mass distributions to samples from other surveys. We find that the DES spectroscopically confirmed sample of SNe Ia selects preferentially fewer high-mass hosts at high-redshift compared to other surveys, while at low redshift the distributions are consistent. DES CCSNe and SLSNe hosts are similar to other samples, while RET hosts are unlike the hosts of any other transients, although these differences have not been disentangled from selection effects.
