The Hubble Higher z Supernova Search: Supernovae to z ≈ 1.6 and Constraints on Type Ia Progenitor Models

By L. Strolger, A. Riess, T. Dahlén, M. Livio, N. Panagia, P. Challis, J. Tonry, A. Filippenko, Ryan Chornock, H. Ferguson and 26 more. 2004

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We present results from the Hubble Higher z Supernova Search, the first space-based open field survey for supernovae (SNe). In cooperation with the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey, we have used the Hubble Space Telescope with the Advanced Camera for Surveys to cover ~300 arcmin2 in the area of the Chandra Deep Field South and the Hubble Deep Field North on five separate search epochs (separated by ~45 day intervals) to a limiting magnitude of F850LP ≈ 26. These deep observations have allowed us to discover 42 SNe in the redshift range 0.2 < z < 1.6. As these data span a large range in redshift, they are ideal for testing the validity of Type Ia supernova progenitor models with the distribution of expected "delay times," from progenitor star formation to Type Ia SN explosion, and the SN rates these models predict. Through a Bayesian maximum likelihood test, we determine which delay-time models best reproduce the redshift distribution of SNe Ia discovered in this survey. We find that models that require a large fraction of "prompt" (less than 2 Gyr) SNe Ia poorly reproduce the observed redshift distribution and are rejected at greater than 95% confidence. We find that Gaussian models best fit the observed data for mean delay times in the range of 2-4 Gyr.

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RATES AND DELAY TIMES OF TYPE Ia SUPERNOVAE (2009, methodology): “Currently & 2000 SNe Ia have been observationally confirmed1, some as distant as z ∼ 1.55 (Strolger et al. 2004).”
The rates of type Ia supernovae - I. Analytical formulations (2005, background): “…of the binary evolution, it seems very hard to accommodate a shape for the distribution of the delay times similar to the one that according to Strolger et al. (2004) best explainthe redshift dependence of the SNIa rates measured in GOODs, i.e. a Gaussian distribution centered onτ ∼ 3− 4 Gyr.”
Long γ-Ray Bursts and Type Ic Core-Collapse Supernovae Have Similar Locations in Hosts (2007, result): “F06 compared the positions of LGRBs to “core-collapse” SN discovered by the GOODS ACS Treasury Program (Riess et al. 2004; Strolger et al. 2004), with the mean redshift of LGRBs of 1.25 and a mean redshift of 0.63 for the core-collapse supernovae.”
DOUBLE COMPACT OBJECTS. III. GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE DETECTION RATES (2015, unknown): “Population models were placed in a cosmological context by adopting the star formation history reported in Strolger et al. (2004) and the galaxy mass distribution of Fontana et al. (2006), both of which are redshift-dependent.”
Morphologies of z ∼ 0.7 AGN host galaxies in CANDELS: no trend of merger incidence with AGN luminosity (2014, background): “…spectroscopic redshifts (Cristiani et al. 2000; Croom, Warren & Glazebrook 2001; Dickinson et al. 2004; Le Févre et al. 2004; Stanway et al. 2004; Strolger et al. 2004; Szokoly et al. 2004; van der Wel et al. 2004; Doherty et al. 2005; Mignoli et al. 2005; Roche et al. 2006; Ravikumar et al.…”
Short-hard gamma-ray bursts (2007, background): “…under debate, but all different models that assume a unimodal lifetime distribution agree that τIa & 1 Gyr (Tonry et al. , 2003; Barris & Tonry, 2006; Strolger et al. , 2004; Gal-Yam & Maoz, 2004; Maoz & Gal-Yam, 2004; Mannucci et al. , 2005) and therefore SHBs, which are most likely older, have a…”
The LABOCA survey of the Extended Chandra Deep Field South: A photometric redshift survey of submillimetre galaxies (2010, background): “…(Cristiani et al. 2000; Croom, Warren & Glazebrook 2001; Bunker et al. 2003; Dickinson et al. 2004; Le Fèvre et al. 2004; Stanway et al. 2004; Strolger et al. 2004; Szokoly et al. 2004; van der Wel et al. 2004; Zheng et al. 2004; Daddi et al. 2005; Doherty et al. 2005; C© 2011 The Authors,…”
SUPERNOVA SIMULATIONS AND STRATEGIES FOR THE DARK ENERGY SURVEY (2011, background): “…(Hamuy et al. 2006; Stritzinger et al. 2011), Stockholm VIMOS Supernova Survey II (Melinder et al. 2011), and Hubble Space Telescope searches (e.g., Strolger et al. 2004; Dawson et al. 2009; Amanullah et al. 2010), have substantially improved the quantity and quality of SNIa data in the last…”
Delay Time Distribution Measurement of Type Ia Supernovae by the Subaru/XMM-Newton Deep Survey and Implications for the Progenitor (2008, unknown): “…type classification under homogeneous conditions of spectroscopic observation, and contamination of SNe with no or poor spectroscopic data is one of the most challenging sources of uncertainty in SN rate studies (Strolger et al. 2004; Neill et al. 2006; Sullivan et al. 2006; Poznanski et al. 2007).”
SUPERNOVA CONSTRAINTS AND SYSTEMATIC UNCERTAINTIES FROM THE FIRST THREE YEARS OF THE SUPERNOVA LEGACY SURVEY (2011, background): “Strolger et al. (2004) argue that the HST searches are sufficiently deep to suffer from little or no Malmquist bias out to the maximum redshift SN discovered.”
Galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. I. Detection, Multiband Photometry, Photometric Redshifts, and Morphology (2006, background): “– 41 – signed confidence levels: 5 obtained by Croom et al. (2001) and a z = 1.30 type Ia supernova named “Aphrodite” by Strolger et al. (2004).”
THE SUPERNOVA DELAY TIME DISTRIBUTION IN GALAXY CLUSTERS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR TYPE-Ia PROGENITORS AND METAL ENRICHMENT (2010, background): “…Mennekens et al. 2010); some physically motivated mathematical parameterizations, with varying degrees of sophistication (e.g., Madau et al. 1998; Greggio 2005; Totani et al. 2008); and some ad hoc formulations intended to reproduce the observed field SN rate evolution (e.g., Strolger et al. 2004).”
The effect of the metallicity-specific star formation history on double compact object mergers (2019, methodology): “At higher redshift, Strolger et al. (2004) assume greater extinction and find a higher rate of star formation than Madau & Dickinson (2014).”
COMPACT BINARY MERGER RATES: COMPARISON WITH LIGO/VIRGO UPPER LIMITS (2015, methodology): “…fractional star formation rate in the simulated metallicity interval, Msim is the total mass of single and binary stars (within our adopted initial mass function range: 0.08–150 M⊙) in the simulation and star formation rate (SFR) is adopted from extinction corrected model of Strolger et al. (2004).”
Approaches to understanding cosmic acceleration (2009, methodology): “8) are important to break the degeneracy among the cosmological parameters and they are currently being measured by the Higher-z Supernova Search Team (HZT) [28] and the GOODS team [29].”
Nearby supernova rates from the Lick Observatory Supernova Search - IV. A recovery method for the delay-time distribution (2010, methodology): “As already noted, “A+B” is an oversimplification, but its measured values are seen to be consistent with our DTD. Strolger et al. (2004) and Dahlen et al. (2004) have deduced a Gaussian DTD centred at 4 Gyr with half-width 0.8 Gyr, as a best fit to their comparison of SN rates to cosmic SFH, out to…”
Gravitational lensing of gravitational waves: A statistical perspective (2018, methodology): “The two different lines represent the results calculated by adopting the SFR functions from Strolger et al. (2004) (red solid line) and from Madau & Dickinson (2014) (black dashed line).”
A Study of Compact Object Mergers as Short Gamma-Ray Burst Progenitors (2006, methodology): “Throughout the paper, we adopt a flat cosmology (Ωm = 0.3, ΩΛ = 0.7 and H0 = 70 km s −1 Mpc−1, and use the star-formation history (corrected for extinction) presented by Strolger et al. (2004).”