Document Type
Article
Publication Date
8-16-2023
Department
Physics and Astronomy
Abstract
The Rubin Observatoryβs 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time will observe near to 20 billion galaxies. For each galaxy the properties can be inferred. Approximately 105 galaxies observed per year will contain Type Ia supernovae (SNe), allowing SN host-galaxy properties to be calculated on a large scale. Measuring the properties of SN host-galaxies serves two main purposes. The first is that there are known correlations between host-galaxy type and supernova type, which can be used to aid in the classification of SNe. Secondly, Type Ia SNe exhibit correlations between host-galaxy properties and the peak luminosities of the SNe, which has implications for their use as standardisable candles in cosmology. We have used simulations to quantify the improvement in host-galaxy stellar mass (πβ) measurements when supplementing photometry from Rubin with spectroscopy from the 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST) instrument. We provide results in the form of expected uncertainties in πβ for galaxies with 0.1 < π§ < 0.9 and 18 < ππ΄π΅ < 25. We show that for galaxies mag 22 and brighter, combining Rubin and 4MOST data reduces the uncertainty measurements of galaxy πβ by more than a factor of 2 compared with Rubin data alone. This applies for elliptical and Sc type hosts. We demonstrate that the reduced uncertainties in πβ lead to an improvement of 7% in the precision of the "mass step" correction. We expect our improved measurements of host-galaxy properties to aid in the photometric classification of SNe observed by Rubin.
Original Publication Information
J Dumayne and others, Using 4MOST to refine the measurement of galaxy properties: A case study of Supernova hosts, RAS Techniques and Instruments, 2023;, rzad036, https://doi.org/10.1093/rasti/rzad036
ThinkIR Citation
Dumayne, J; Hook, I M.; Williams, S C.; Lowes, G A.; Head, D; Fritz, A; Graur, O; Holwerda, Benne; Humphrey, A; Milligan, A; Nicholl, M; Roukema, B F.; and Wiseman, P, "Using 4MOST to refine the measurement of galaxy properties: A case study of Supernova hosts" (2023). Faculty Scholarship. 889.
https://ir.library.louisville.edu/faculty/889
DOI
10.1093/rasti/rzad036
ORCID
0000-0002-4884-6756
Comments
Β© The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.