DUST TO DUST: THREE YEARS IN THE EVOLUTION OF THE UNUSUAL SN 2008S
- Department of Astronomy, Ohio State University, 140 W. 18th Ave., Columbus, OH 43210 (United States)
- Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Peyton Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544 (United States)
- Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, 225 Nieuwland Science Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556 (United States)
- Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics, School of Physics and Astronomy, 116 Church Street, S. E., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (United States)
We obtained late-time optical and near-IR imaging of SN 2008S with the Large Binocular Telescope, near-IR data with the Hubble Space Telescope, and mid-IR data with the Spitzer Space Telescope. We find that (1) it is again invisible at optical (UBVR) wavelengths to magnitude limits of approximately 25 mag, (2) while detected in the near-IR (H) at approximately 24.8 mag, it is fading rapidly, and (3) it is still brighter than the progenitor at 3.6 and 4.5 {mu}m in the mid-IR with a slow, steady decline. The IR detections in 2010 December are consistent with dust emission at a blackbody temperature of T {approx_equal} 640 K and a total luminosity of L {approx_equal} 200,000 L{sub Sun }, much higher than the L {approx_equal} 40,000 L{sub Sun} luminosity of the obscured progenitor star. The local environment also shows no evidence for stars significantly more massive than 10 M{sub Sun }, consistent with the progenitor being an 8-10 M{sub Sun} super asymptotic giant branch star.
- OSTI ID:
- 22034559
- Journal Information:
- Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 750, Issue 1; Other Information: Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0004-637X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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