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06 October 2024
 
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Using Line Profiles to Test the Fraternity of Type Ia Supernovae at High and Low Redshifts
S. Blondin ; L. Dessart ; B. Leibundgut ; D. Branch ; P. Hoeflich ; J. L. Tonry ; T. Matheson ; R. J. Foley ; R. Chornock ; A. V. Filippenko ; J. Sollerman ; J. Spyromilio ; R. P. Kirshner ; W. M. Wood-Vasey ; A. Clocchiatti ; C. Aguilera ; B. Barris ; A. C. Becker ; P. Challis ; R. Covarrubias ; T. Davis ; P. Garnavich ; M. Hicken ; S. Jha ; K. Krisciunas ; W. Li ; A. Miceli ; G. Miknaitis ; G. Pignata ; J. L. Prieto ; A. Rest ; A. G. Riess ; M. E. Salvo ; B. P. Schmidt ; R. C. Smith ; C. W. Stubbs ; N. B. Suntzeff ;
Date 4 Oct 2005
Subject astro-ph
AbstractUsing archival data of low-redshift (z < 0.01) Type Ia supernovae (SN Ia) and recent observations of high-redshift (0.16 < z <0.64; Matheson et al. 2005) SN Ia, we study the "uniformity’’ of the spectroscopic properties of nearby and distant SN Ia. We find no difference in the measures we describe here. In this paper, we base our analysis solely on line-profile morphology, focusing on measurements of the velocity location of maximum absorption (vabs) and peak emission (vpeak). We find that the evolution of vabs and vpeak for our sample lines (Ca II 3945, Si II 6355, and S II 5454, 5640) is similar for both the low- and high-redshift samples. We find that vabs for the weak S II 5454, 5640 lines, and vpeak for S II 5454, can be used to identify fast-declining [dm15 > 1.7] SN Ia, which are also subluminous. In addition, we give the first direct evidence in two high-z SN Ia spectra of a double-absorption feature in Ca II 3945, an event also observed, though infrequently, in low-redshift SN Ia spectra (6/22 SN Ia in our local sample). We report for the first time the unambiguous and systematic intrinsic blueshift of peak emission of optical P-Cygni line profiles in Type Ia spectra, by as much as 8000 km/s. All the high-z SN Ia analyzed in this paper were discovered and followed up by the ESSENCE collaboration, and are now publicly available.
Source arXiv, astro-ph/0510089
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