Type Ia Supernova Rates Near and Far

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2007-03-15

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0703409v1

AIPConf.Proc.924:373-382,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

10 pages, 2 figures, Invited talk at `The Multicoloured Landscape of Compact Objects and their Explosive Origins', Cefalu', 20

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.2774883

(ABRIDGED) Recently, three important observational results were established: (a) The evolution of the SNIa rate with redshift show that the rate rises up to z~0.8, when the Universe was 6.5 Gyr old, and decreases afterward. (b) The rate of supernova explosions of the different types as a function of the galaxy (B-K) and the galaxy mass shows a marked increase with the star formation activity. (c) The rate of SNIa in radio-loud galaxies is much higher than the rate measured in radio-quiet galaxies. On this basis we have discussed the distribution of the delay time (DTD) between the formation of a SNIa progenitor star and its explosion as a SNIa. Our analysis finds: i) models with long delay times, say 3-4 Gyr, cannot reproduce the dependence of the SNIa rate on the colors and on the radio-luminosity of the parent galaxies; ii) the dependence of the SNIa rate on the parent galaxy colors requires models with a wide DTD, spanning the interval 100 Myr to 10 Gyr; iii) the dependence on the parent galaxy radio-luminosity requires substantial production of SNIa at epochs earlier than 100 Myr after the birth of a given stellar generation; iv) the comparison between observed SN rates and a grid of theoretical "single-population" DTDs shows that only a few of them are marginally consistent with all observations; v) the present data are best matched by a bimodal DTD, in which about 50% of type Ia SNe ("prompt" SNIa) explode soon after their stellar birth, in a time of the order of 100 Myrs, while the remaining 50% ("tardy" SNIa) have a much wider distribution, well described by an exponential function with a decay time of about 3 Gyr. We discuss the cosmological implications of this result and make simple predictions.

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