FAINT OBJECT CAMERA OBSERVATIONS OF THE SHAPE AND EXPANSION OF SN-1987A

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作者
JAKOBSEN, P [1 ]
MACCHETTO, F [1 ]
PANAGIA, N [1 ]
机构
[1] SPACE TELESCOPE SCI INST,BALTIMORE,MD 21218
来源
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL | 1993年 / 403卷 / 02期
关键词
CIRCUMSTELLAR MATTER; SUPERNOVAE; INDIVIDUAL; (SN-1987A); SUPERNOVA REMNANTS;
D O I
10.1086/172244
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
New visible and near-UV imagery of SN 1987A obtained 1754 days after outburst with the Faint Object Camera on-board the Hubble Space Telescope is presented. A comparison between these data and previous FOC observations obtained 1278 days after outburst reveal that the supernova dimmed by a factor 0.35 +/- 0.04 between the two observations, corresponding to an exponential decay time of 450 +/- 50 days. The SN 1987A envelope is resolved in all exposures and increased in size by a factor congruent-to 1.4 between day 1278 and day 1754 in a manner consistent with linear homologous expansion in time. Detailed fits to the image profiles indicate that the SN 1987A envelope is heavily limb-darkened and well described by a surface brightness profile that decreases with angular radius rho as phi(rho) is-proportional-to 1/[1 + (rho/rho(s))alpha], where alpha congruent-to 5-6. The apparent size of the SN 1987A envelope also varies significantly with wavelength. On day 1754 the inferred diameter was 2rho(s) congruent-to 120 milliarcseconds (FWHM) at visible wavelengths, but 2rho(s) congruent-to 190 milliarcseconds in the near-UV. The data are consistent with the envelope of SN 1987A being axially symmetrical to within 50% at a high level of confidence. Marginal evidence for a congruent-to 20% elongation of the supernova image may, however, be present in the near-UV exposures.
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页码:736 / 742
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