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23 April 2024

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A statistical analysis of circumstellar material in Type Ia supernovae
Kate Maguire ; Mark Sullivan ; Ferdinando Patat ; Avishay Gal-Yam ; Isobel M. Hook ; Suhail Dhawan ; D. Andrew Howell ; Paolo Mazzali ; Peter E. Nugent ; Yen-Chen Pan ; Philipp Podsiadlowski ; Joshua D. Simon ; Assaf Sternberg ; Stefano Valenti ; Charles Baltay ; David Bersier ; Nadejda Blagorodnova ; Ting-Wan Chen ; Nancy Ellman ; Ulrich Feindt ; Francisco Förster ; Morgan Fraser ; Santiago González-Gaitán ; Melissa L. Graham ; Claudia Gutiérrez ; Stephan Hachinger ; Elena Hadjiyska ; Cosimo Inserra ; Cristina Knapic ; R. R. Laher ; Giorgos Leloudas ; Steven Margheim ; Ryan McKinnon ; Marco Molinaro ; Nidia Morrell ; Eran O. Ofek ; David Rabinowitz ; Armin Rest ; David Sand ; Riccardo Smareglia ; Stephen J. Smartt ; Francesco Taddia ; Emma S. Walker ; Nicholas A. Walton ; David R. Young ;
Date:	19 Aug 2013
Abstract:	A key tracer of the elusive progenitor systems of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) is the detection of narrow blueshifted time-varying Na I D absorption lines, interpreted as evidence of circumstellar material (CSM) surrounding the progenitor system. The origin of this material is controversial, but the simplest explanation is that it results from previous mass loss in a system containing a white dwarf and a non-degenerate companion star. We present new single-epoch intermediate-resolution spectra of 17 low-redshift SNe Ia taken with XShooter on the ESO Very Large Telescope. Combining this sample with events from the literature, we confirm an excess (~20 per cent) of SNe Ia displaying blueshifted narrow Na I D absorption features compared to non-blueshifted Na I D features. The host galaxies of SNe Ia displaying blueshifted absorption profiles are skewed towards later-type galaxies, compared to SNe Ia that show no Na I D absorption, and SNe Ia displaying blueshifted narrow Na I D absorption features have broader light curves. The strength of the Na I D absorption is stronger in SNe Ia displaying blueshifted Na I D absorption features than those without blueshifted features, and the strength of the blueshifted Na I D is correlated with the B-V colour of the SN at maximum light. This strongly suggests the absorbing material is local to the SN. In the context of the progenitor systems of SNe Ia, we discuss the significance of these findings and other recent observational evidence on the nature of SN Ia progenitors. We present a summary that suggests there are at least two distinct populations of normal, cosmologically useful SNe Ia.
Source:	arXiv, 1308.3899
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