Yuan, FangKobayashi, ChiakiSchmidt, BrianSim, Stuart A.Podsiadlowski, Ph.Scalzo, Richard2015-12-130035-8711http://hdl.handle.net/1885/72895We put constraints on the properties of the progenitors of peculiar calcium-rich transients using the distribution of locations within their host galaxies. We confirm that this class of transients do not follow the galaxy stellar mass profile and are more© 2013 The Authors. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Sociey © 2013 Fang Yuan, Chiaki Kobayashi, Brian P. Schmidt, Philipp Podsiadlowski, Stuart A. Sim, Richard A. Scalzo. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/ access_purchase/rights_and_permissions/self_archiving_policy_p (Publisher journal website as of 3/10/2018)http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/0035-8711/ Author can archive publisher's version/PDF. Publisher's version/PDF on Institutional repositories or Central repositories, with all rights reserved (Sherpa/Romeo as of 3/10/2018).Keywords: Galaxies: abundances; Methods: statistical; Supernovae: generalLocations of peculiar supernovae as a diagnostic of their origins201310.1093/mnras/stt5912016-02-24