The Progenitors of Subluminous Type Ia Supernovae

Details The Progenitors of Subluminous Type Ia Supernovae The Progenitors of Subluminous Type Ia Supernovae

2001-05-15

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0105246v1

Astrophys.J.554:L193-L196,2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

7 pages, 1 figure, Accepted to ApJ Letters

Scientific paper

10.1086/321702

We find that spectroscopically peculiar subluminous SNe Ia come from an old population. Of the sixteen subluminous SNe Ia known, ten are found in E/S0 galaxies, and the remainder are found in early-type spirals. The probability that this is a chance occurrence is only 0.2%. The finding that subluminous SNe Ia are associated with an older stellar population indicates that for a sufficiently large lookback time (already accessible in current high redshift searches) they will not be found. Due to a scarcity in old populations, hydrogen and helium main sequence stars and He red giant stars that undergo Roche lobe overflow are unlikely to be the progenitors of subluminous SNe Ia. Earlier findings that overluminous SNe Ia (dM15(B) < 0.95) come from a young progenitor population are confirmed. The fact that subluminous SNe Ia and overluminous SNe Ia come from different progenitor populations and also have different properties is a prediction of the CO white dwarf merger progenitor scenario.

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