Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2009-02-04
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
8 pages, 6 figures, in "Probing Stellar Populations out to the Distant Universe", (Cefalu', Italy, Sept. 2008), AIP Conf. Proc
Scientific paper
The scaling of the rate of type Ia Supernovae (SNIa) with the parent galaxies' color provides information on the distribution of the delay times (DTD) of the SNIa progenitors. We show that this information appears to depend on the photometric bands used to trace the stellar age distribution and mass-to-light ratio in the parent galaxies. Using both (U-V) and (B-K) colors to constrain the star formation history, we model the SNIa rate as a function of morphological galaxy type for different DTDs. The comparison with the observed rate per unit B and K band luminosity yields consistent results, although the large error bars allow us to exclude only very flat and very narrow DTDs. The number of SNIa from one stellar generation results of ~ 2, 3 events every 1000 Mo of stars formed.
Cappellaro Enrico
Greggio Laura
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