Molecular content of a type-Ia SN host galaxy at z=0.6

Details Molecular content of a type-Ia SN host galaxy at z=0.6 Molecular content of a type-Ia SN host galaxy at z=0.6

2007-07-24

arxiv.org/abs/0707.3505v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

8 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.12261.x

We study the properties and the molecular content of the host of a type-Ia supernova (SN1997ey). This z=0.575 host is the brightest submillimetre source of the sample of type-Ia supernova hosts observed at 450um and 850um by Farrah et al.. Observations were performed at IRAM-30m to search for CO(2-1) and CO(3-2) lines in good weather conditions but no signal was detected. The star formation rate cannot exceed 50 M_sol/yr. These negative results are confronted with an optical analysis of a Keck spectrum and other data archives. We reach the conclusion that this galaxy is a late-type system (0.7 L^B_*), with a small residual star-formation activity (0.2 M_sol/yr) detected in the optical. No source of heating (AGN or starburst) is found to explain the submillimetre-continuum flux and the non-CO detection excludes the presence of a large amount of cold gas. We thus suggest that either the star formation activity is hidden in the nucleus (with A_V ~ 4) or this galaxy is passive or anemic and this flux might be associated with a background galaxy.

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