Comparing the Locations of Supernovae to CO (2-1) Emission in Their Host Galaxies

International audienceWe measure the molecular gas environment near recent (mol ≳ 105.3 M ⊙). Using the Open Supernova Catalog, we identify 63 SNe within the PHANGS-ALMA footprint. We detect CO (2-1) emission near ~60% of the sample at 150 pc resolution, compared to ~35% of map pixels with CO (2-1) emission, and up to ~95% of the SNe at 1 kpc resolution, compared to ~80% of map pixels with CO (2-1) emission. We expect the ~60% of SNe within the same 150 pc beam, as a giant molecular cloud will likely interact with these clouds in the future, consistent with the observation of widespread SN-molecular gas interaction in the Milky Way, while the other ~40% of SNe without strong CO (2-1) detections will deposit their energy in the diffuse interstellar medium, perhaps helping drive large-scale turbulence or galactic outflows. Broken down by type, we detect CO (2-1) emission at the sites of ~85% of our 9 stripped-envelope SNe (SESNe), ~40% of our 34 Type II SNe, and ~35% of our 13 Type Ia SNe, indicating that SESNe are most closely associated with the brightest CO (2-1) emitting regions in our sample. Our results confirm that SN explosions are not restricted to only the densest gas, and instead exert feedback across a wide range of molecular gas densities