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超乌拉尔山SNe Ia强烈倾向于贫金属环境

Super-Chandrasekhar SNe Ia Strongly Prefer Metal-Poor Environments

Rubab Khan, K. Z. Stanek, R. Stoll, J. L. Prieto

摘要:

我们讨论了一种新的趋势,即超克拉塞卡Ia型超新星(SCSNe)的祖质量估计显着超过1.4 M_sun往往在贫金属环境中爆炸。虽然Taubenberger et al. 2011注意到一些SCSNe宿主星系相对缺乏金属,但我们定量地关注它们在宿主星系中的位置,指出在四分之三的情况下,SCSNe爆炸发生在其宿主星系盘的外缘。因此,它们的祖先很可能具有比宿主中心区域的金属丰度低得多的金属丰度。在两个案例中(SN 2003 fg和SN 2009 dc),爆炸地点在宿主光的99%之外,而在一个案例中(SN 2006 gz),宿主的径向金属丰度斜率表明爆炸地点位于贫金属区域。第四种情况(SN 2007 if)具有光谱测量的最低SN Ia宿主金属丰度(Childress等人,2011年)。也许可以通过一些特定于这种情况的祖先场景来解释这些异常明亮的事件中的每一个,但是一个更简单和直接的结论是将控制因素归因于它们唯一共同的物理方面-贫金属环境。

英文摘要:

We discuss the emerging trend that super-Chandrasekhar Type Ia Supernovae (SCSNe) with progenitor mass estimates significantly exceeding 1.4 M_sun tend to explode in metal-poor environments. While Taubenberger et al. 2011 noted that some of the SCSNe host galaxies are relatively metal-poor, we focus quantitatively on their locations in the hosts to point out that in three out of four cases, the SCSNe explosions occurred in the outer edge of the disks of their hosts. It is therefore very likely that their progenitors had far lower metallicities than those implied by the metallicity of their hosts' central regions. In two cases (SN 2003fg and SN 2009dc) the explosion sites were outside 99% of the host's light, and in one case (SN 2006gz) the host's radial metallicity slope indicates that the explosion site is in a metal-poor region. The fourth case (SN 2007if) has the lowest spectroscopically measured SN Ia host metallicity (Childress et al. 2011. It may be possible to explain each of these unusually bright events through some progenitor scenario specific to that case, but a much simpler and straightforward conclusion would be to ascribe the controlling factor to the only physical aspect they have in common --- metal poor environments.

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