Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Characterising the environments of supernovae with MUSE   We present a statistical analysis of the environments of 11 supernovae (SNe)
which occurred in 6 nearby galaxies (z $\lesssim$ 0.016). All galaxies were
observed with MUSE, the high spatial resolution integral field spectrograph
mounted to the 8m VLT UT4. These data enable us to map the full spatial extent
of host galaxies up to $\sim$3 effective radii. In this way, not only can one
characterise the specific host environment of each SN, one can compare their
properties with stellar populations within the full range of other environments
within the host. We present a method that consists of selecting all HII regions
found within host galaxies from 2D extinction-corrected H$\alpha$ emission
maps. These regions are then characterised in terms of their H$\alpha$
equivalent widths, star formation rates, and oxygen abundances. Identifying HII
regions spatially coincident with SN explosion sites, we are thus able to
determine where within the distributions of host galaxy e.g. metallicities and
ages each SN is found, thus providing new constraints on SN progenitor
properties. This initial pilot study using MUSE opens the way for a revolution
in SN environment studies where we are now able to study multiple environment
SN progenitor dependencies using a single instrument and single pointing.

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The categories of this paper are: nucl-ex
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The categories of this paper are: funct-an
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The categories of this paper are: quant-ph
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The categories of this paper are: cond-mat
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The categories of this paper are: mtrl-th
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The categories of this paper are: patt-sol
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The categories of this paper are: dg-ga
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The categories of this paper are: cmp-lg
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The categories of this paper are: hep-th
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The categories of this paper are: econ
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The categories of this paper are: stat
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The categories of this paper are: supr-con
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The categories of this paper are: atom-ph
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The categories of this paper are: cs
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The categories of this paper are: physics
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The categories of this paper are: plasm-ph