A sample of dust attenuation laws for Dark Energy Survey supernova host galaxies

J. Duarte; S. González-Gaitán; A. Mourão; A. Paulino-Afonso; P. Guilherme-Garcia; J. Águas; L. Galbany; L. Kelsey; D. Scolnic; M. Sullivan; D. Brout; A. Palmese; P. Wiseman; M. Aguena; O. Alves; D. Bacon; E. Bertin; S. Bocquet; D. Brooks; D. L. Burke; A. Carnero Rosell; M. Carrasco Kind; J. Carretero; M. Costanzi; M. E.S. Pereira; T. M. Davis; J. De Vicente; S. Desai; H. T. Diehl; P. Doel; S. Everett; I. Ferrero; D. Friedel; J. Frieman; J. García-Bellido; M. Gatti; D. W. Gerdes; D. Gruen; R. A. Gruendl; G. Gutierrez; S. R. Hinton; D. L. Hollowood; K. Honscheid; D. J. James; K. Kuehn; N. Kuropatkin; P. Melchior; R. Miquel; F. Paz-Chinchón; A. Pieres; A. A. Plazas Malagón; M. Raveri; M. Rodriguez-Monroy; E. Sanchez; V. Scarpine; I. Sevilla-Noarbe; M. Smith; E. Suchyta; G. Tarle; C. To; N. Weaverdyck

doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202346534

A sample of dust attenuation laws for Dark Energy Survey supernova host galaxies

J. Duarte, S. González-Gaitán, A. Mourão, A. Paulino-Afonso, P. Guilherme-Garcia, J. Águas, L. Galbany, L. Kelsey, D. Scolnic, M. Sullivan, D. Brout, A. Palmese, P. Wiseman, M. Aguena, O. Alves, D. Bacon, E. Bertin, S. Bocquet, D. Brooks, D. L. BurkeA. Carnero Rosell, M. Carrasco Kind, J. Carretero, M. Costanzi, M. E.S. Pereira, T. M. Davis, J. De Vicente, S. Desai, H. T. Diehl, P. Doel, S. Everett, I. Ferrero, D. Friedel, J. Frieman, J. García-Bellido, M. Gatti, D. W. Gerdes, D. Gruen, R. A. Gruendl, G. Gutierrez, S. R. Hinton, D. L. Hollowood, K. Honscheid, D. J. James, K. Kuehn, N. Kuropatkin, P. Melchior, R. Miquel, F. Paz-Chinchón, A. Pieres, A. A. Plazas Malagón, M. Raveri, M. Rodriguez-Monroy, E. Sanchez, V. Scarpine, I. Sevilla-Noarbe, M. Smith, E. Suchyta, G. Tarle, C. To, N. Weaverdyck

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Context. Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are useful distance indicators in cosmology, provided their luminosity is standardized by applying empirical corrections based on light-curve properties. One factor behind these corrections is dust extinction, which is accounted for in the color-luminosity relation of the standardization. This relation is usually assumed to be universal, which can potentially introduce systematics into the standardization. The “mass step” observed for SN Ia Hubble residuals has been suggested as one such systematic. Aims. We seek to obtain a more complete view of dust attenuation properties for a sample of 162 SN Ia host galaxies and to probe their link to the mass step. Methods. We inferred attenuation laws toward hosts from both global and local (4 kpc) Dark Energy Survey photometry and composite stellar population model fits. Results.We recovered a relation between the optical depth and the attenuation slope, best explained by differing star-to-dust geometry for different galaxy orientations, which is significantly different from the optical depth and extinction slope relation observed directly for SNe. We obtain a large variation of attenuation slopes and confirm these change with host properties, such as the stellar mass and age, meaning a universal SN Ia correction should ideally not be assumed. Analyzing the cosmological standardization, we find evidence for a mass step and a two-dimensional “dust step”, both more pronounced for red SNe. Although comparable, the two steps are not found to be completely analogous. Conclusions. We conclude that host galaxy dust data cannot fully account for the mass step, using either an alternative SN standardization with extinction proxied by host attenuation or a dust-step approach.

Original language	English
Article number	A56
Journal	Astronomy and Astrophysics
Volume	680
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202346534
State	Published - Dec 1 2023

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J.D., S.G.G., A.M. and A.P.A. acknowledge support by FCT under Project CRISP PTDC/FIS-AST-31546/2017 and Project No. UIDB/00099/2020. L.G. acknowledges financial support from the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MCIN), the Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI) 10.13039/501100011033, and the European Social Fund (ESF) “Investing in your future” under the 2019 Ramón y Cajal program RYC2019-027683-I and the PID2020-115253GA-I00 HOSTFLOWS project, from Centro Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) under the PIE project 20215AT016, and the program Unidad de Excelencia María de Maeztu CEX2020-001058-M. L.K. thanks the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship for support through the grant MR/T01881X/1. Computations were performed at the cluster “Baltasar-Sete-Sóis” and supported by the H2020 ERC Consolidator Grant “Matter and strong field gravity: New frontiers in Einstein’s theory” grant agreement no. MaGRaTh-646597. P.W. acknowledges support from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) grant ST/R000506/1. Funding for the DES Projects has been provided by the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Ministry of Science and Education of Spain, the Science and Technology Facilities Council of the United Kingdom, the Higher Education Funding Council for England, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Kavli Institute of Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago, the Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics at the Ohio State University, the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy at Texas A&M University, Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos, Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo á Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico and the Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the Collaborating Institutions in the Dark Energy Survey. The Collaborating Institutions are Argonne National Laboratory, the University of California at Santa Cruz, the University of Cambridge, Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas-Madrid, the University of Chicago, University College London, the DES-Brazil Consortium, the University of Edinburgh, the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign, the Institut de Ciéncies de l’Espai (IEEC/CSIC), the Institut de Física d’Altes Energies, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München and the associated Excellence Cluster Universe, the University of Michigan, the National Optical Astronomy Observatory, the University of Nottingham, The Ohio State University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Portsmouth, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, the University of Sussex, Texas A&M University, and the OzDES Membership Consortium. Based in part on observations at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, National Optical Astronomy Observatory, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation. The DES data management system is supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Numbers AST-1138766 and AST-1536171. The DES participants from Spanish institutions are partially supported by MINECO under grants AYA2015-71825, ESP2015-66861, FPA2015-68048, SEV-2016-0588, SEV2016-0597, and MDM-2015-0509, some of which include ERDF funds from the European Union. IFAE is partially funded by the CERCA program of the Generalitat de Catalunya. Research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Program (FP7/2007-2013) including ERC grant agreements 240672, 291329, and 306478. We acknowledge support from the Brazilian Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia (INCT) e-Universe (CNPq grant 465376/2014-2). This manuscript has been authored by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics.

Funders	Funder number
Brazilian Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia
Centro Superior de Investigaciones Científicas	20215AT016
Collaborating Institutions are Argonne National Laboratory
Collaborating Institutions in the Dark Energy Survey
Fermi Research Alliance, LLC	DE-AC02-07CH11359
H2020 ERC	MaGRaTh-646597
Institut de Ciéncies de l’Espai
Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy at Texas A&M University
Science and Technology Facilities Council of the United Kingdom
Unidad de Excelencia María de Maeztu CEX2020-001058-M
National Science Foundation	AST-1138766, AST-1536171
National Science Foundation
U.S. Department of Energy
Stanford University
Office of Science
High Energy Physics
Fermilab
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
University of California, Santa Cruz
University of Pennsylvania
Ohio State University
University of Chicago
University of Michigan
Texas A and M University
University of Portsmouth
University of Illinois System
National Centre for Supercomputing Applications
Seventh Framework Programme
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Higher Education Funding Council for England
UK Research and Innovation	MR/T01881X/1
UK Research and Innovation
Science and Technology Facilities Council	ST/R000506/1
Science and Technology Facilities Council
University College London
European Commission
European Research Council	240672, 306478, 291329
European Research Council
University of Nottingham
University of Sussex
University of Edinburgh
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia	CRISP PTDC/FIS-AST-31546/2017, UIDB/00099/2020
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Generalitat de Catalunya
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad	SEV-2016-0588, ESP2015-66861, MDM-2015-0509, FPA2015-68048, AYA2015-71825, SEV2016-0597
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad
Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico	465376/2014-2
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
European Social Fund Plus	PID2020-115253GA-I00, RYC2019-027683-I
European Social Fund Plus
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia para Excitotoxicidade e Neuroproteção
Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine
European Regional Development Fund
Agencia Estatal de Investigación
Institut de Física d'Altes Energies

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distance scale
dust, extinction
galaxies: general
supernovae: general

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Duarte, J., González-Gaitán, S., Mourão, A., Paulino-Afonso, A., Guilherme-Garcia, P., Águas, J., Galbany, L., Kelsey, L., Scolnic, D., Sullivan, M., Brout, D., Palmese, A., Wiseman, P., Aguena, M., Alves, O., Bacon, D., Bertin, E., Bocquet, S., Brooks, D., ... Weaverdyck, N. (2023). A sample of dust attenuation laws for Dark Energy Survey supernova host galaxies. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 680, Article A56. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202346534

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