44Ti gamma-ray emission lines from SN1987A reveal an asymmetric explosion

被引:95
作者
Boggs, S. E. [1 ]
Harrison, F. A. [2 ]
Miyasaka, H. [2 ]
Grefenstette, B. W. [2 ]
Zoglauer, A. [1 ]
Fryer, C. L. [3 ]
Reynolds, S. P. [4 ]
Alexander, D. M. [5 ]
An, H. [6 ]
Barret, D. [7 ,8 ]
Christensen, F. E. [9 ]
Craig, W. W. [1 ,10 ]
Forster, K. [2 ]
Giommi, P. [11 ]
Hailey, C. J. [12 ]
Hornstrup, A. [9 ]
Kitaguchi, T. [13 ]
Koglin, J. E. [14 ]
Madsen, K. K. [2 ]
Mao, P. H. [2 ]
Mori, K. [12 ]
Perri, M. [11 ,15 ]
Pivovaroff, M. J. [10 ]
Puccetti, S. [11 ,15 ]
Rana, V. [2 ]
Stern, D. [16 ]
Westergaard, N. J. [9 ]
Zhang, W. W. [17 ]
机构
[1] Univ Calif Berkeley, Space Sci Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[2] CALTECH, Cahill Ctr Astron & Astrophys, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[3] Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA
[4] NC State Univ, Dept Phys, Raleigh, NC 27695 USA
[5] Univ Durham, Dept Phys, Durham DH1 3LE, England
[6] McGill Univ, Dept Phys, Montreal, PQ H3A 2T8, Canada
[7] Univ Toulouse, UPS OMP, IRAP, Toulouse, France
[8] CNRS, Inst Rech Astrophys & Planetol, F-31028 Toulouse 4, France
[9] Tech Univ Denmark, Natl Space Inst, DTU Space, DK-2800 Lyngby, Denmark
[10] Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab, Livermore, CA 94550 USA
[11] Agenzia Spaziale Italiana ASI Sci Data Ctr, I-00133 Rome, Italy
[12] Columbia Univ, Columbia Astrophys Lab, New York, NY 10027 USA
[13] RIKEN Nishina Ctr, Wako, Saitama 3510198, Japan
[14] SLAC Natl Accelerator Lab, Kavli Inst Particle Astrophys & Cosmol, Menlo Pk, CA 94025 USA
[15] INAF Osservatorio Astron Roma, I-00040 Monte Porzio Catone, Italy
[16] CALTECH, Jet Prop Lab, Pasadena, CA 91109 USA
[17] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
基金
美国国家航空航天局; 日本学术振兴会;
关键词
CORE-COLLAPSE SUPERNOVAE; SN; 1987A; LIGHT-CURVE; CHANDRA OBSERVATIONS; NEUTRINO BURST; SN-1987A; EJECTA; PROFILES; SPECTRUM;
D O I
10.1126/science.aaa2259
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
In core-collapse supernovae, titanium-44 (Ti-44) is produced in the innermost ejecta, in the layer of material directly on top of the newly formed compact object. As such, it provides a direct probe of the supernova engine. Observations of supernova 1987A (SN1987A) have resolved the 67.87- and 78.32-kilo-electron volt emission lines from decay of Ti-44 produced in the supernova explosion. These lines are narrow and redshifted with a Doppler velocity of similar to 700 kilometers per second, direct evidence of large-scale asymmetry in the explosion.
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