Dust content of core-collapse supernova hosts

¹ LERMA, Observatoire de Paris, CNRS, UMR8112, 61 avenue de l'Observatoire, 75014 Paris, France e-mail: [A.L.Melchior;Francoise.Combes]@obspm.fr
² Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, 4 Place Jussieu, 75 252 Paris Cedex 05, France

Received: 1 August 2007
Accepted: 13 March 2008

Abstract

We study 13 core-collapse supernova (CCSN) host galaxies at . Continuum observations at 250 GHz were performed using MAMBO at the IRAM-30 m telescope. No source is detected and the error-weighted mean flux is 0.25 ± 0.32 mJy. Upper limits on their dust masses are derived and the corresponding sample mean corresponds to . These results are comparable to previous submillimetre observations of SN-Ia hosts completed by Farrah et al. and Clements et al. We conclude that CCSN hosts are not extreme sources at millimetre wavelengths, and as confirmed using the optical luminosities of a subset of our sample, they are typical of the local galaxy population.