A Type Ia Supernova at Redshift 1.55 in Hubble Space Telescope Infrared Observations from CANDELS

Abstract

We report the discovery of a Type Ia supernova (SNIa) at redshift z=1.55 with the infrared detector of the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3-IR) on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). This object was discovered in CANDELS imaging data of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, and followed as part of the CANDELS+CLASH Supernova project, comprising the SN search components from those two HST multi-cycle treasury programs. This is the highest redshift SNIa with direct spectroscopic evidence for classification. It is also the first SN Ia at z>1 found and followed in the infrared, providing a full light curve in rest-frame optical bands. The classification and redshift are securely defined from a combination of multi-band and multi-epoch photometry of the SN, ground-based spectroscopy of the host galaxy, and WFC3-IR grism spectroscopy of both the SN and host. This object is the first of a projected sample at z>1.5 that will be discovered by the CANDELS and CLASH programs. The full CANDELS+CLASH SN Ia sample will enable unique tests for evolutionary effects that could arise due to differences in SN Ia progenitor systems as a function of redshift. This high-z sample will also allow measurement of the SN Ia rate out to z~2, providing a complementary constraint on SN Ia progenitor models.

10 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

References in corpus (39)

• Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant
• Measurements of Omega and Lambda from 42 High-Redshift Supernovae
• Seven-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Cosmological Interpretation
• Type Ia Supernova Discoveries at z>1 From the Hubble Space Telescope: Evidence for Past Deceleration and Constraints on Dark Energy Evolution
• Cosmological Imprint of an Energy Component with General Equation of State
• CANDELS: The Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey
• CANDELS: The Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey - The Hubble Space Telescope Observations, Imaging Data Products and Mosaics
• New Hubble Space Telescope Discoveries of Type Ia Supernovae at z > 1: Narrowing Constraints on the Early Behavior of Dark Energy
• Observational Constraints on the Nature of the Dark Energy: First Cosmological Results from the ESSENCE Supernova Survey
• Supernova Constraints and Systematic Uncertainties from the First 3 Years of the Supernova Legacy Survey
• SALT2: using distant supernovae to improve the use of Type Ia supernovae as distance indicators
• Improved Distances to Type Ia Supernovae with Multicolor Light Curve Shapes: MLCS2k2
• Nearby Supernova Rates from the Lick Observatory Supernova Search. II. The Observed Luminosity Functions and Fractions of Supernovae in a Complete Sample
• Supernova Limits on the Cosmic Equation of State
• First-year Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II (SDSS-II) Supernova Results: Hubble Diagram and Cosmological Parameters
• CDM Models with a Smooth Component
• Observed Fractions of Core-Collapse Supernova Types and Initial Masses of their Single and Binary Progenitor Stars
• CfA3: 185 Type Ia Supernova Light Curves from the CfA
• Determining the Type, Redshift, and Age of a Supernova Spectrum
• SNLS3: Constraints on Dark Energy Combining the Supernova Legacy Survey Three Year Data with Other Probes
• The First Systematic Study of Type Ibc Supernova Multi-band Light Curves
• UBVRI Light Curves of 44 Type Ia Supernovae
• Type Ia Supernovae: Influence of the Initial Composition on the Nucleosynthesis, Light Curves, Spectra and Consequences for the Determination of Omega_M & Lambda
• The Carnegie Supernova Project: First Photometry Data Release of Low-Redshift Type Ia Supernovae
• SNANA: A Public Software Package for Supernova Analysis
• The Hubble Higher-Z Supernova Search: Supernovae to z=1.6 and Constraints on Type Ia Progenitor Models
• Caltech Core-Collapse Project (CCCP) observations of type IIn supernovae: typical properties and implications for their progenitor stars
• A Comparative Study of the Absolute-Magnitude Distributions of Supernovae
• Core-Collapse Supernovae from the Palomar Transient Factory: Indications for a Different Population in Dwarf Galaxies
• A Golden Standard Type Ia Supernova SN 2005cf: Observations from the Ultraviolet to the Near-Infrared Wavebands
• Constraints on the Progenitors of SNeIa & Implications for the Cosmological Equation of State
• The Slitless Spectroscopy Data Extraction Software aXe
• Supernovae in the Subaru Deep Field: the rate and delay-time distribution of type Ia supernovae out to redshift 2
• The Extended HST Supernova Survey: The Rate of SNe Ia at z>1.4 Remains Low
• A New Determination of the High Redshift Type Ia Supernova Rates with the Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys
• Stellar Forensics with the Supernova-GRB Connection
• The First Type Ia Supernovae: An Empirical Approach to Taming Evolutionary Effects In Dark Energy Surveys from SNe Ia at z>2
• Fuzzy Supernova Templates I: Classification
• Fuzzy Supernova Templates II: Parameter Estimation

Cited by in corpus (38)

• The 3D-HST Survey: Hubble Space Telescope WFC3/G141 grism spectra, redshifts, and emission line measurements for $\sim 100,000$ galaxies
• Type Ia Supernova Distances at z > 1.5 from the Hubble Space Telescope Multi-Cycle Treasury Programs: The Early Expansion Rate
• Simulations of the WFIRST Supernova Survey and Forecasts of Cosmological Constraints
• Type Ia Supernova Rate Measurements to Redshift 2.5 from CANDELS : Searching for Prompt Explosions in the Early Universe
• The Rate of Core Collapse Supernovae to Redshift 2.5 From The CANDELS and CLASH Supernova Surveys
• Core-collapse supernovae missed by optical surveys
• Mass-accreting white dwarfs and type Ia supernovae
• The Extended Hubble Space Telescope Supernova Survey: The Rate of Core Collapse Supernovae to z~1
• First Cosmology Results using Type Ia Supernova from the Dark Energy Survey: Simulations to Correct Supernova Distance Biases
• Constraints on dark energy with the LOSS SN Ia sample
• Illuminating a Dark Lens : A Type Ia Supernova Magnified by the Frontier Fields Galaxy Cluster Abell 2744
• The Discovery of the Most Distant Known Type Ia Supernova at Redshift 1.914
• Super Luminous Supernovae as standardizable candles and high redshift distance probes
• Type Ia Single Degenerate Survivors Must Be Overluminous
• A Tentative Detection of an Emission Line at 1.6 μm for the z~12 Candidate UDFj-39546284
• Three Gravitationally Lensed Supernovae Behind CLASH Galaxy Clusters
• New approaches to SNe Ia progenitors
• The MUSE Hubble Ultra Deep Field Survey: IV. Global properties of C III] emitters
• A common-envelope wind model for Type Ia supernovae (I): binary evolution and birth rate
• Extending the supernova Hubble diagram to z~1.5 with the Euclid space mission
• CLASH: Accurate Photometric Redshifts with 14 HST bands in Massive Galaxy Cluster Cores
• Strong gravitational lensing and microlensing of supernovae
• Lensed Type Ia Supernovae as Probes of Cluster Mass Models
• Precision Measurement of The Most Distant Spectroscopically Confirmed Supernova Ia with the Hubble Space Telescope
• Studying the Ultraviolet Spectrum of the First Spectroscopically Confirmed Supernova at redshift two
• On Spectral Line Profiles in Type Ia Supernova Spectra
• The Discovery of a Gravitationally Lensed Supernova Ia at Redshift 2.22
• CLEAR: Survey Overview, Data Analysis and Products
• Host Galaxy Spectra and Consequences for SN Typing From The SDSS SN Survey
• SNe Ia as a cosmological probe
• The Dwarf Starburst Host Galaxy of a Type Ia SN at z = 1.55 from CANDELS
• Testing for redshift evolution of Type Ia supernovae using the strongly lensed PS1-10afx at $z=1.4$
• Blast From the Past: Constraining Progenitor Models of SN 1972E
• Hydrodynamical simulations for the common-envelope wind model for Type Ia supernovae
• The Shared Causal Pasts and Futures of Cosmological Events
• Spectroscopic identification of a redshift 1.55 supernova host galaxy from the Subaru Deep Field Supernova Survey
• Disentangling AGN and Star Formation Activity at High Redshift Using Hubble Space Telescope Grism Spectroscopy
• Type-Ia Supernova Remnant Shell At $Z=3.5$ Seen In The Three Sightlines Toward The Gravitationally Lensed Qso B1422+231