Study of the Dependence of the Plateau Shape for Type II Supernovae on Metallicity

Abstract

We consider the effect of a change in the rate of flux decline in the U band for type II-P supernovae (SNe IIP) as a function of metallicity $Z$. Based on this effect, we propose a new method to determine the photometric redshift from the SN IIP light curve in the U band. Using the STELLA code, we have constructed model light curves in different bands for different redshifts $z=0.0,0.1$, and $0.3$ as the metallicity in the models decreases from $Z\sim 10^{-3}$ to $\sim 10^{-6}$. The flux in the U band is shown to reach a plateau at the lowest metallicities. We consider the influence of other parameters as well: the presupernova mass and the mass of radioactive nickel-56.

14 pages, 10 figures

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