The Palomar Transient Factory Core-Collapse Supernova Host-Galaxy Sample. I. Host-Galaxy Distribution Functions and Environment-Dependence of CCSNe
Creators: name: Schulze, Steve
name: Yaron, Ofer
name: Sollerman, Jesper
name: Leloudas, Giorgos
name: Gal, Amit
name: Wright, Angus H.
name: Lunnan, Ragnhild
name: Gal-Yam, Avishay
name: Ofek, Eran O.
name: Perley, Daniel A.
name: Filippenko, Alexei V.
name: Kasliwal, Mansi M.
name: Kulkarni, Shri R.
name: Nugent, Peter E.
name: Quimby, Robert M.
name: Sullivan, Mark
name: Strothjohann, Nora Linn
name: Arcavi, Iair
name: Ben-Ami, Sagi
name: Bianco, Federica
name: Bloom, Joshua S.
name: De, Kishalay
name: Fraser, Morgan
name: Fremling, Christoffer U.
name: Horesh, Assaf
name: Johansson, Joel
name: Kelly, Patrick L.
name: Knezevic, Sladjana
name: Maguire, Kate
name: Nyholm, Anders
name: Papadogiannakis, 2 Semeli
name: Petrushevska, Tanja
name: Rubin, Adam
name: Yan, Lin
name: Yang, Yi
name: Adams, Scott M.
name: Bufano, Filomena
name: Clubb, Kelsey I.
name: Foley, Ryan J.
name: Green, Yoav
name: Harmanen, Jussi
name: Ho, Anna Y. Q.
name: Hook, Isobel M.
name: Hosseinzadeh, Griffin
name: Howell, D. Andrew
name: Kong, Albert K. H.
name: Kotak, Rubina
name: Matheson, Thomas
name: McCully, Curtis
name: Milisavljevic, Dan
name: Pan, Yen-Chen
name: Poznanski, Dovi
name: Shivvers, Isaac
name: van Velzen, Sjoert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Several thousand core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) of different flavors have been discovered so far. However, identifying their progenitors has remained an outstanding open question in astrophysics. Studies of SN host galaxies have proven to be powerful in providing constraints on the progenitor populations. In this paper, we present all CCSNe detected between 2009 and 2017 by the Palomar Transient Factory. This sample includes 888 SNe of 12 distinct classes out to redshift $z\approx1$. We present the photometric properties of their host galaxies from the far-ultraviolet to the mid-infrared and model the host-galaxy spectral energy distributions to derive physical properties. The galaxy mass functions of Type Ic, Ib, IIb, II, and IIn SNe ranges from $10^{5}$ to $10^{11.5}~M_\odot$, probing the entire mass range of star-forming galaxies down to the least-massive star-forming galaxies known. Moreover, the galaxy mass distributions are consistent with models of star-formation-weighted mass functions. Regular CCSNe are hence direct tracers of star formation. Small but notable differences exist between some of the SN classes. Type Ib/c SNe prefer galaxies with slightly higher masses (i.e., higher metallicities) and star-formation rates than Type IIb and II SNe. These differences are less pronounced than previously thought. H-poor SLSNe and SNe~Ic-BL are scarce in galaxies above $10^{10}~M_\odot$. Their progenitors require environments with metallicities of $&lt;0.4$ and $&lt;1$ solar, respectively. In addition, the hosts of H-poor SLSNe are dominated by a younger stellar population than all other classes of CCSNe. Our findings corroborate the notion that low-metallicity \textit{and} young age play an important role in the formation of SLSN progenitors.
description: 24 pages main text, 14 figures, 9 Tables, catalogue available at http://www.github.com/steveschulze/PTF