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arxiv 2002.00974 v2 pith:K5GCTVQM submitted 2020-02-03 astro-ph.GA astro-ph.CO

Supernova Siblings: Assessing the Consistency of Properties of Type Ia Supernovae that Share the Same Parent Galaxies

D. Scolnic , M. Smith , A. Massiah , P. Wiseman , D. Brout , R. Kessler , T. M. Davis , R. J. Foley
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L. Galbany S. R. Hinton R. Hounsell L. Kelsey C. Lidman R. Morgan R. C. Nichol A. M\"oller B. Popovic M. Sako M. Sullivan B. P. Thomas T. M. C. Abbott M. Aguena S. Allam J. Annis S. Avila K. Bechtol E. Bertin D. Brooks D. L. Burke A. Carnero Rosell D. Carollo M. Carrasco Kind J. Carretero M. Costanzi L. N. da Costa J. De Vicente S. Desai H. T. Diehl P. Doel A. Drlica-Wagner K. Eckert T. F. Eifler S. Everett B. Flaugher P. Fosalba J. Frieman J. Garc\'ia-Bellido E. Gaztanaga D. W. Gerdes K. Glazebrook D. Gruen R. A. Gruendl J. Gschwend G. Gutierrez W. G. Hartley D. L. Hollowood K. Honscheid D. J. James K. Kuehn N. Kuropatkin G. F. Lewis T. S. Li M. Lima E. Macaulay M. A. G. Maia J. L. Marshall F. Menanteau R. Miquel A. Palmese F. Paz-Chinch\'on A. A. Plazas M. Pursiainen E. Sanchez V. Scarpine M. Schubnell S. Serrano I. Sevilla-Noarbe N. E. Sommer E. Suchyta M. E. C. Swanson G. Tarle B. E. Tucker T. N. Varga A. R. Walker R. Wilkinson
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While many studies have shown a correlation between properties of the light curves of Type Ia SN (SNe Ia) and properties of their host galaxies, it remains unclear what is driving these correlations. We introduce a new direct method to study these correlations by analyzing `parent' galaxies that host multiple SNe Ia 'siblings'. Here, we search the Dark Energy Survey SN sample, one of the largest samples of discovered SNe, and find 8 galaxies that hosted two likely Type Ia SNe. Comparing the light-curve properties of these SNe and recovered distances from the light curves, we find no better agreement between properties of SNe in the same galaxy as any random pair of galaxies, with the exception of the SN light-curve stretch. We show at $2.8\sigma$ significance that at least 1/2 of the intrinsic scatter of SNe Ia distance modulus residuals is not from common host properties. We also discuss the robustness with which we could make this evaluation with LSST, which will find $100\times$ more pairs of galaxies, and pave a new line of study on the consistency of Type Ia supernovae in the same parent galaxies. Finally, we argue that it is unlikely some of these SNe are actually single, lensed SN with multiple images.

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