Early Observations of the Type Ia Supernova iPTF 16abc: A Case of Interaction with Nearby, Unbound Material and/or Strong Ejecta Mixing

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作者
Miller, A. A. [1 ,2 ,3 ]
Cao, Y. [4 ,5 ]
Piro, A. L. [6 ]
Blagorodnova, N. [7 ]
Bue, B. D. [8 ]
Cenko, S. B. [9 ,10 ]
Dhawan, S. [11 ]
Ferretti, R. [11 ]
Fox, O. D. [12 ]
Fremling, C. [13 ]
Goobar, A. [11 ]
Howell, D. A. [14 ,15 ]
Hosseinzadeh, G. [14 ,15 ]
Kasliwal, M. M. [7 ]
Laher, R. R. [16 ]
Lunnan, R. [7 ]
Masci, F. J. [16 ]
McCully, C. [14 ,15 ]
Nugent, P. E. [17 ,18 ]
Sollerman, J. [13 ]
Taddia, F. [13 ]
Kulkarni, S. R. [7 ]
机构
[1] Northwestern Univ, CIERA, 2145 Sheridan Rd, Evanston, IL 60208 USA
[2] Northwestern Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, 2145 Sheridan Rd, Evanston, IL 60208 USA
[3] Adler Planetarium, Chicago, IL 60605 USA
[4] Univ Washington, eSci Inst, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
[5] Univ Washington, Astron Dept, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
[6] Observ Carnegie Inst Washington, 813 Santa Barbara St, Pasadena, CA 91101 USA
[7] CALTECH, Div Phys Math & Astron, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[8] CALTECH, Jet Prop Lab, 4800 Oak Grove Dr, Pasadena, CA 91109 USA
[9] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Mail Code 661, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
[10] Univ Maryland, Joint Space Sci Inst, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[11] Stockholm Univ, Dept Phys, Oskar Klein Ctr, AlbaNova, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
[12] Space Telescope Sci Inst, 3700 San Martin Dr, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA
[13] Stockholm Univ, Oskar Klein Ctr, Dept Astron, AlbaNova, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
[14] Las Cumbres Observ, Goleta, CA 93117 USA
[15] Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Phys Dept, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA
[16] CALTECH, Infrared Proc & Anal Ctr, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[17] Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[18] Univ Calif Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
methods: observational; supernovae: general; supernovae: individual (iPTF 16abc; SN 2011fe); surveys; WHITE-DWARF MODELS; WIDE-FIELD CAMERA; LIGHT CURVES; SKY SURVEY; RISE-TIME; SPECTROGRAPH; CONSTRAINTS; PROGENITORS; TELESCOPE; EXPLOSION;
D O I
10.3847/1538-4357/aaa01f
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
Early observations of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) provide a unique probe of their progenitor systems and explosion physics. Here we report the intermediate Palomar Transient Factory (iPTF) discovery of an extraordinarily young SN Ia, iPTF 16abc. By fitting a power law to our early light curve, we infer that first light for the SN, that is, when the SN could have first been detected by our survey, occurred only 0.15 +/-(0.15)(0.07) days before our first detection. In the similar to 24 hr after discovery, iPTF 16abc rose by similar to 2mag, featuring a near-linear rise in flux for. greater than or similar to 3 days. Early spectra show strong C II absorption, which disappears after similar to 7 days. Unlike the extensively observed Type Ia SN 2011fe, the (B - V)(0) colors of iPTF 16abc are blue and nearly constant in the days after explosion. We show that our early observations of iPTF 16abc cannot be explained by either SN shock breakout and the associated, subsequent cooling or the SN ejecta colliding with a stellar companion. Instead, we argue that the early characteristics of iPTF 16abc, including (i) the rapid, near-linear rise, (ii) the nonevolving blue colors, and (iii) the strong C II absorption, are the result of either ejecta interaction with nearby, unbound material or vigorous mixing of radioactive Ni-56 in the SN ejecta, or a combination of the two. In the next few years, dozens of very young normal SNe Ia will be discovered, and observations similar to those presented here will constrain the white dwarf explosion mechanism.
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