Chemistry and Star Formation in the Host Galaxies of Type Ia Supervovae

Abstract

We study the effect of environment on the properties of type Ia supernovae by analyzing the integrated spectra of 57 local type Ia supernova host galaxies. We deduce from the spectra the metallicity, current star formation rate, and star formation history of the host and compare these to the supernova decline rates. Additionally, we compare the host properties to the Hubble residuals for each SN. Our results indicate a statistically insignificant correlation in the direction higher metallicity spiral galaxies host fainter type Ia supernovae. However, we present qualitative evidence suggesting progenitor age is more likely than metallicity to be the source of variability in supernova peak luminosities. We do not find a correlation between the supernova decline rate and both host galaxy absolute B magnitude and current/past host galaxy star formation rate. A tenuous correlation is observed between the supernova Hubble residuals and host galaxy metallicities. Finally, we characterize the environmental property distributions for type Ia supernova host galaxies through a comparison with two larger, more general galaxy distributions using Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests. The results show the host galaxy metallicity distribution to be similar to the metallicity distributions of the galaxies of the NFGS and SDSS. Significant differences are observed between the SN Ia distributions of absolute B magnitude and star formation histories and the corresponding distributions of galaxies in the NFGS and SDSS. Among these is an abrupt upper limit observed in the distribution of star formation histories of the host galaxy sample suggesting a type Ia supernovae characteristic delay time lower limit of approximately 2.0 Gyrs. Other distribution discrepancies are investigated and the effect on the supernova properties are discussed.

28 pages, 15 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

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