Biswas, R, Goobar, A, Dhawan, S, Schulze, S, Johansson, J, Bellm, EC, Dekany, R, Drake, AJ, Duev, DA, Fremling, C, Graham, M, Kim, Y-L, Kool, EC, Kulkarni, SR, Mahabal, AA, Perley, DA, Rigault, M, Rusholme, B, Sollerman, J, Shupe, DL et al, Smith, M and Walters, RS (2021) Two c's in a pod: Cosmology independent measurement of the Type Ia supernova colour-luminosity relation with a sibling pair. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 509 (4). pp. 5340-5356. ISSN 0035-8711

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Abstract

Using Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) observations, we identify a pair of "sibling" Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), i.e., hosted by the same galaxy at z = 0.0541. They exploded within 200 days from each other at a separation of $0.6^{"} $ corresponding to a projected distance of only 0.6 kpc. Performing SALT2 light curve fits to the gri ZTF photometry, we show that for these equally distant "standardizable candles", there is a difference of 2 magnitudes in their rest frame B-band peaks, and the fainter SN has a significantly red SALT2 colour $c = 0.57 \pm$ 0.04, while the stretch values $x_1$ of the two SNe are similar, suggesting that the fainter SN is attenuated by dust in the interstellar medium of the host galaxy. We use these measurements to infer the SALT2 colour standardization parameter, $\beta$ = 3.5 $\pm$ 0.3, independent of the underlying cosmology and Malmquist bias. Assuming the colour excess is entirely due to dust, the result differs by $2\sigma$ from the average Milky-Way total-to-selective extinction ratio, but is in good agreement with the colour-brightness corrections empirically derived from the most recent SN Ia Hubble-Lemaitre diagram fits. Thus we suggest that SN "siblings", which will increasingly be discovered in the coming years, can be used to probe the validity of the colour and lightcurve shape corrections using in SN Ia cosmology while avoiding important systematic effects in their inference from global multi-parameter fits to inhomogeneous data-sets, and also help constrain the role of interstellar dust in SN Ia cosmology.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ©:2021 the Author(s)Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab2943
Uncontrolled Keywords:	astro-ph.GA; astro-ph.GA; astro-ph.CO; astro-ph.HE
Subjects:	Q Science > QB Astronomy Q Science > QC Physics
Divisions:	Astrophysics Research Institute
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Related URLs:	http://arxiv.org/abs/2103.16978v2
Date Deposited:	30 Nov 2021 10:13
Last Modified:	05 Jan 2022 16:45
DOI or ID number:	10.1093/mnras/stab2943
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/15838

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