A COLIBRI Photometric Study of SN 2025bvm: A Normal, Slowly Declining Type Ia Supernova
Abstract
We present 121 days of multi-band (\Bband, \gband, \rband, \iband) optical photometry of the Type Ia supernova SN 2025bvm, obtained with the COLIBRI telescope at OAN-SPM. The light curves show a photometric decline of ~mag, characteristic of a slow-declining Type Ia supernova. After correcting for host galaxy extinction (~mag) and adopting a distance of 70~Mpc, we derive a peak absolute magnitude of ~mag. This luminosity is fully consistent with its slow decline rate, placing SN 2025bvm within the population of normal Type Ia supernovae. We conclude that SN 2025bvm is a normal Type Ia supernova, whose photometric properties, such as a slow late-time decline and a prominent \iband-band secondary maximum, suggest an explosion that resulted in a particularly massive ejecta.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2601.07745,
title = {A COLIBRI Photometric Study of SN 2025bvm: A Normal, Slowly Declining Type Ia Supernova},
author = {Diego Hernando Gonzalez-Buitrago and Maria Teresa Garcia-Diaz and Alberto Emiliano Montoya-Olivo and Sergio Sanchez-Sanjuan and Hector Avila-Mogollon},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.07745},
year = {2026}
}
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9 pages, 9 figures,