Title: The SUSHIES project – Unravelling the Host Galaxies of Super-luminous Supernovae

Abstract:
Super-luminous supernovae (SLSNe) were only discovered recently due to their preference for 
occurring in faint dwarf galaxies. Understanding why stellar evolution yields different types of 
stellar explosions in these environments is fundamental to both place constraints on the elusive 
progenitors of SLSNe and to study star-formation in dwarf galaxies. We here present the first 
results of our project to study Super-luminous Supernova Host galaxIES (SUSHIES). We find 
that SLSNe explode in faint (M=-17.5 mag) metal-poor dwarf galaxies with star-formation rates 
of 0.5-3 M/yr. One of our key results is that a large number of H-poor SLSN hosts are similar to 
extreme emission-line galaxies, in their mass and luminosity distributions and in that they often 
show equivalent widths > 100 AA in [OIII]-5007.  Furthermore, we will discuss the host offsets of 
these explosions and put the host properties in the context of GRB host galaxies and other 
populations of star-forming galaxies.