Tuesday, January 29, 2013

1301.6538 (Brajesh Kumar et al.)

Light curve and spectral evolution of the Type IIb SN 2011fu    [PDF]

Brajesh Kumar, S. B. Pandey, D. K. Sahu, J. Vinko, A. S. Moskvitin, G. C. Anupama, V. K. Bhatt, A. Ordasi, A. Nagy, V. V. Sokolov, T. N. Sokolova, V. N. Komarova, Brijesh Kumar, Subhash Bose, Rupak Roy, Ram Sagar
We present the low-resolution spectroscopic and UBVRI broad-band photometric investigations of the Type IIb supernova 2011fu, discovered in UGC 01626. The photometric follow-up of this event has been initiated a few days after the explosion and covers a period of about 175 days. The early-phase light curve shows a rise followed by steep decay in all bands and shares properties very similar to that seen in case of SN 1993J, with a possible detection of the adiabatic cooling phase. Modelling of the quasi-bolometric light curve suggests that the progenitor had an extended ($\sim 1 \times 10^{13}$ cm), low-mass ($\sim 0.1$ $M_\odot$) H-rich envelope on top of a dense, compact ($\sim 2 \times 10^{11}$ cm), more massive ($\sim$ 1.1 $M_\odot$) He-rich core. The nickel mass synthesized during the explosion was found to be $\sim$ 0.21 $M_\odot$, slightly larger than seen in case of other Type IIb SNe. The spectral modelling performed with SYNOW suggests that the early-phase line velocities for H and Fe\,{\sc ii} features were $\sim 16000$ km s$^{-1}$ and $\sim 14000$ km s$^{-1}$, respectively. Then the velocities declined up to day +40 and became nearly constant at later epochs.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.6538

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