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Abstract We present ultraviolet/optical/near-infrared observations and modeling of Type II supernovae (SNe II) whose early time (δt< 2 days) spectra show transient, narrow emission lines from shock ionization of confined (r< 1015cm) circumstellar material (CSM). The observed electron-scattering broadened line profiles (i.e., IIn-like) of Hi, Hei/ii, Civ, and Niii/iv/vfrom the CSM persist on a characteristic timescale (tIIn) that marks a transition to a lower-density CSM and the emergence of Doppler-broadened features from the fast-moving SN ejecta. Our sample, the largest to date, consists of 39 SNe with early time IIn-like features in addition to 35 “comparison” SNe with no evidence of early time IIn-like features, all with ultraviolet observations. The total sample includes 50 unpublished objects with a total of 474 previously unpublished spectra and 50 multiband light curves, collected primarily through the Young Supernova Experiment and Global Supernova Project collaborations. For all sample objects, we find a significant correlation between peak ultraviolet brightness and bothtIInand the rise time, as well as evidence for enhanced peak luminosities in SNe II with IIn-like features. We quantify mass-loss rates and CSM density for the sample through the matching of peak multiband absolute magnitudes, rise times,tIIn, and optical SN spectra with a grid of radiation hydrodynamics and non-local thermodynamic equilibrium radiative-transfer simulations. For our grid of models, all with the same underlying explosion, there is a trend between the duration of the electron-scattering broadened line profiles and inferred mass-loss rate: (0.01M⊙yr−1)] days.
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Final Moments. III. Explosion Properties and Progenitor Constraints of CSM-interacting Type II Supernovae
Abstract We present analysis of the plateau and late-time phase properties of a sample of 39 Type II supernovae (SNe II) that show narrow, transient, high-ionization emission lines (i.e., “IIn-like”) in their early-time spectra from interaction with confined, dense circumstellar material (CSM). Originally presented by W. V. Jacobson-Galán et al., this sample also includes multicolor light curves and spectra extending to late-time phases of 35 SNe with no evidence for IIn-like features at <2 days after first light. We measure photospheric phase light-curve properties for the distance-corrected sample and find that SNe II with IIn-like features have significantly higher luminosities and decline rates at +50 days than the comparison sample, which could be connected to inflated progenitor radii, lower ejecta mass, and/or persistent CSM interaction. However, we find no statistical evidence that the measured plateau durations and56Ni masses of SNe II with and without IIn-like features arise from different distributions. We estimate progenitor zero-age main-sequence (ZAMS) masses for all SNe with nebular spectroscopy through spectral model comparisons and find that most objects, both with and without IIn-like features, are consistent with progenitor masses ≤12.5M⊙. Combining progenitor ZAMS masses with CSM densities inferred from early-time spectra suggests multiple channels for enhanced mass loss in the final years before core collapse, such as a convection-driven chromosphere or binary interaction. Finally, we find spectroscopic evidence for ongoing ejecta-CSM interaction at radii >1016cm, consistent with substantial progenitor mass-loss rates of ∼10−4–10−5M⊙yr−1(vw < 50 km s−1) in the final centuries to millennia before explosion.
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- PAR ID:
- 10653560
- Author(s) / Creator(s):
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- Publisher / Repository:
- ApJ
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- The Astrophysical Journal
- Volume:
- 992
- Issue:
- 1
- ISSN:
- 0004-637X
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 100
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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