A global group of astronomers stories the detection of 12 new long-rising Sort II supernovae as a part of the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) Census of the Native Universe (CLU). The invention, printed June 1 on the arXiv pre-print repository, almost doubles the variety of recognized supernovae of this subclass.
Sort II supernovae (SNe) are the outcomes of fast collapse and violent explosion of large stars (with lots above 8.0 solar masses). They’re distinguished from different SNe by the presence of hydrogen of their spectra. Primarily based on the form of their mild curves, they’re often divided into Sort IIL and Sort IIP. Sort IIL SNe present a gentle (linear) decline after the explosion, whereas Sort IIP exhibit a interval of slower decline (a plateau) that’s adopted by a standard decay.
Some Sort II SNe are characterised by their uncommon lengthy rises to peak—lasting greater than 40 days. Observations recommend that, usually, such long-rising SNe originate from extra compact (with radii beneath 100 solar radii), large (with lots of about 20 solar lots) stars, and have greater explosion energies. Nevertheless, though three many years have handed for the reason that discovery of the primary long-rising Sort II SNe, designated SN 1987A, solely 16 explosions of this subclass have been recognized within the native universe.
Lately, a bunch of astronomers led by Tawny Sit of the Ohio State College (OSU), has recognized 13 long-rising Sort II SNe (from a total of three,444 transients), out of which 12 turned out to be new discoveries. The observations have been carried out utilizing the 48-inch Schmidt telescope (P48) at Palomar Observatory, underneath the ZTF CLU experiment.
The newfound Sort II SNe have rise occasions starting from 67 to 96 days and dome-shaped mild curves in r-band photometry. All of them have peak absolute magnitudes between −15.6 and −17.5 within the r-band, what’s per earlier research of the recognized long-rising Sort II SNe.
The research discovered that every one the 12 SNe have spectra displaying broad hydrogen-alpha strains at velocities principally per these reported by earlier observations of Sort II Sne. Furthermore, spectral strains of barium (Ba II) have been detected in 9 SNe reported within the paper.
The outcomes point out that almost all of the SNe II within the new pattern occurred in environments with subsolar metallicities, in faint dwarf galaxies and within the outskirts of huge star-forming galaxies. Two occurred in near- or super-solar metallicity environments.
Primarily based on the CLU pattern of occasions, the astronomers derive a long-rising Sort II SNe fee of the total core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe). This worth was calculated to be at a degree of roughly 1.4%.
“With our derived fee of ≈1.4% of all CCSNe, we verify that SN 1987A and comparable SNe are certainly uncommon occasions,” the authors of the research concluded.
Extra data:
Tawny Sit et al, Lengthy-rising Sort II Supernovae within the Zwicky Transient Facility Census of the Native Universe, arXiv (2023). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2306.01109
Journal data:
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