The Rise-Time of Normal and Subluminous Type Ia Supernovae

Details The Rise-Time of Normal and Subluminous Type Ia Supernovae The Rise-Time of Normal and Subluminous Type Ia Supernovae

2011-09-27

arxiv.org/abs/1109.5757v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Galaxy Astrophysics

13 pages, 13 figures

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We calculate the average stretch-corrected rise-time of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) in the Supernova Legacy Survey. We use the aggregate lightcurves of spectroscopic and photometrically identified SNe Ia to fit the rising part of the lightcurve with a simple quadratic model. We obtain a lightcurve shape corrected, i .e. stretch-corrected, fiducial rise-time of 17.02^{+0.18}_{-0.28} (stat) days. The measured rise-time differs from an earlier finding by the SNLS (Conley et al. 2006) due to the use of different SN Ia templates. We compare it to nearby samples using the same methods and find no evolution in the early part of the lightcurve of SNe Ia up to z=1. We search for variations among different populations, particularly subluminous objects, by dividing the sample in stretch. Bright and slow decliners (s>1.0) have consistent stretch-corrected rise-times compared to fainter and faster decliners (0.8

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