Pair-instability supernovae via collision runaway in young dense star clusters: PISNe via collision runaway
Abstract
Stars with helium cores between ~64 and 133 M⊙ are theoretically predicted to die as pair-instability supernovae. This requires very massive progenitors, which are theoretically prohibited for Pop II/I stars within the Galactic stellar mass limit due to mass-loss via line-driven winds. However, the runaway collision of stars in a dense, young star cluster could create a merged star with sufficient mass to end its life as a pair-instability supernova, even with enhanced mass-loss at non-zero metallicity. We show that the predicted rate from this mechanism is consistent with the inferred volumetric rate of roughly ~2 × 10-9 Mpc-3 yr-1 of the two observed pair-instability supernovae, SN 2007bi and PTF 10nmn, neither of which has metal-free host galaxies. Contrary to prior literature, only pair-instability supernovae at low redshifts $z < 2$ will be observable with the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope. We estimate that the telescope will observe ~102 such events per year that originate from the collisional runaway mergers in clusters.
- Authors:
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- Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA (United States)
- Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF); Univ. of California, Oakland, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1564900
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231; FC02-06ER41438
- Resource Type:
- Journal Article: Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 423; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 0035-8711
- Publisher:
- Royal Astronomical Society
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; Astronomy & Astrophysics; supernovae: general; galaxies: star clusters: general
Citation Formats
Pan, Tony, Loeb, Abraham, and Kasen, Daniel. Pair-instability supernovae via collision runaway in young dense star clusters: PISNe via collision runaway. United States: N. p., 2012.
Web. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.21030.x.
Pan, Tony, Loeb, Abraham, & Kasen, Daniel. Pair-instability supernovae via collision runaway in young dense star clusters: PISNe via collision runaway. United States. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.21030.x
Pan, Tony, Loeb, Abraham, and Kasen, Daniel. 2012.
"Pair-instability supernovae via collision runaway in young dense star clusters: PISNe via collision runaway". United States. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.21030.x. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1564900.
@article{osti_1564900,
title = {Pair-instability supernovae via collision runaway in young dense star clusters: PISNe via collision runaway},
author = {Pan, Tony and Loeb, Abraham and Kasen, Daniel},
abstractNote = {Stars with helium cores between ~64 and 133 M⊙ are theoretically predicted to die as pair-instability supernovae. This requires very massive progenitors, which are theoretically prohibited for Pop II/I stars within the Galactic stellar mass limit due to mass-loss via line-driven winds. However, the runaway collision of stars in a dense, young star cluster could create a merged star with sufficient mass to end its life as a pair-instability supernova, even with enhanced mass-loss at non-zero metallicity. We show that the predicted rate from this mechanism is consistent with the inferred volumetric rate of roughly ~2 × 10-9 Mpc-3 yr-1 of the two observed pair-instability supernovae, SN 2007bi and PTF 10nmn, neither of which has metal-free host galaxies. Contrary to prior literature, only pair-instability supernovae at low redshifts $z < 2$ will be observable with the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope. We estimate that the telescope will observe ~102 such events per year that originate from the collisional runaway mergers in clusters.},
doi = {10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.21030.x},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1564900},
journal = {Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society},
issn = {0035-8711},
number = 3,
volume = 423,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Jun 19 00:00:00 EDT 2012},
month = {Tue Jun 19 00:00:00 EDT 2012}
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