2020ApJ...892..121K

We present a photometric study of 17 SNe Ia based on multi-color (Johnson-Cousins-Bessell BVRI) data taken at Piszkesteto mountain station of Konkoly Observatory, Hungary between 2016 and 2018. We analyze the light curves (LCs) using the publicly available LC-fitter SNooPy2 to derive distance and reddening information. The bolometric LCs are fit with a radiation-diffusion Arnett model to get constraints on the physical parameters of the ejecta: the optical opacity, the ejected mass and the initial nickel mass in particular. We also study the pre-maximum, dereddened (B-V)₀ color evolution by comparing our data with standard delayed detonation and pulsational delayed detonation models, and show that the ⁵⁶Ni masses of the models that fit the (B-V)₀ colors are consistent with those derived from the bolometric LC fitting. We find similar correlations between the ejecta parameters (e.g., ejecta mass, or ⁵⁶Ni mass versus decline rate) as published recently by Scalzo et al. (2019).