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Title: Confined dense circumstellar material surrounding a regular type II supernova

Journal Article · · Nature Physics
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys4025· OSTI ID:1406199
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  1. Weizmann Inst. of Science, Rehovot (Israel)
  2. California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States); Univ. of Copenhagen (Denmark). The Niels Bohr Inst.
  3. Trinity College Dublin (Ireland)
  4. Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem (Israel). Racah Inst. of Physics
  5. California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States)
  6. Stockholm Univ. (Sweden)
  7. Weizmann Inst. of Science, Rehovot (Israel); Israel Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC), Yavne (Israel). Soreq Nuclear Research Centre (Soreq NRC)
  8. Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States); NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Greenbelt, MD (United States)
  9. Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States)
  10. Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA (United States); Las Cumbres Observatory, Goleta, CA (United States)
  11. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
  12. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
  13. California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), La Canada Flintridge, CA (United States)
  14. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  15. Univ. Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City (Mexico). Inst. de Astronomia
  16. Queen's Univ., Belfast, Northern Ireland (United Kingdom)
  17. Univ. of Southampton (United Kingdom)
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With the advent of new wide-field, high-cadence optical transient surveys, our understanding of the diversity of core-collapse supernovae has grown tremendously in the last decade. However, the pre-supernova evolution of massive stars, which sets the physical backdrop to these violent events, is theoretically not well understood and difficult to probe observationally. Here we report the discovery of the supernova iPTF 13dqy= SN 2013fsa mere 1/43 h after explosion. Our rapid follow-up observations, which include multiwavelength photometry and extremely early (beginning at 1/46 h post-explosion) spectra, map the distribution of material in the immediate environment ( ‰210 15 cm) of the exploding star and establish that it was surrounded by circumstellar material (CSM) that was ejected during the final 1/41 yr prior to explosion at a high rate, around 10 '3 solar masses per year. The complete disappearance of flash-ionized emission lines within the first several days requires that the dense CSM be confined to within ‰210 15 cm, consistent with radio non-detections at 70-100 days. The observations indicate that iPTF 13dqy was a regular type II supernova; thus, the finding that the probable red supergiant progenitor of this common explosion ejected material at a highly elevated rate just prior to its demise suggests that pre-supernova instabilities may be common among exploding massive stars.

Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC52-06NA25396; AC02-05CH11231
OSTI ID:
1406199
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1436152
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-15-25982; TRN: US1703254
Journal Information:
Nature Physics, Vol. 13, Issue 5; ISSN 1745-2473
Publisher:
Nature Publishing Group (NPG)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 166 works
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