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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 722, Issue 1, Pages 566-576Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/722/1/566
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distance scale; galaxies: fundamental parameters; supernovae: general
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- SKA
- MEST [2009-0063616]
- U.S. Department of Energy [DE-FG02-08ER41562]
- W. M. Keck Foundation
- STFC
- ICREA Funding Source: Custom
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Physics [0855534] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We present an analysis of the host galaxy dependences of Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) from the full three year sample of the SDSS-II Supernova Survey. We re-discover, to high significance, the strong correlation between host galaxy type and the width of the observed SN light curve, i. e., fainter, quickly declining SNe Ia favor passive host galaxies, while brighter, slowly declining Ia's favor star-forming galaxies. We also find evidence (at between 2 sigma and 3 sigma) that SNe Ia are similar or equal to 0.1 +/- 0.04 mag brighter in passive host galaxies than in star-forming hosts, after the SN Ia light curves have been standardized using the light-curve shape and color variations. This difference in brightness is present in both the SALT2 and MCLS2k2 light-curve fitting methodologies. We see evidence for differences in the SN Ia color relationship between passive and star-forming host galaxies, e.g., for the MLCS2k2 technique, we see that SNe Ia in passive hosts favor a dust law of R(V) = 1.0 +/- 0.2, while SNe Ia in star-forming hosts require R(V) = 1.8+(0.2)(0.4). The significance of these trends depends on the range of SN colors considered. We demonstrate that these effects can be parameterized using the stellar mass of the host galaxy (with a confidence of > 4 sigma) and including this extra parameter provides a better statistical fit to our data. Our results suggest that future cosmological analyses of SN Ia samples should include host galaxy information.
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