A rapidly declining transient discovered with Subaru/Hyper Suprime-Cam
Abstract
We perform a high-cadence transient survey with Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC), which we call the Subaru HSC survey Optimized for Optical Transients (SHOOT). We conduct HSC imaging observations with time intervals of about one hour on two successive nights, and spectroscopic and photometric follow-up observations. A rapidly declining blue transient SHOOT14di at is found in observations on two successive nights with an image subtraction technique. The rate of brightness change is () in the observer (rest) frame and the rest-frame color between and is . The nature of the object is investigated by comparing its peak luminosity, decline rate, and color with those of transients and variables previously observed, and those of theoretical models. None of the transients or variables share the same properties as SHOOT14di. Comparisons with theoretical models demonstrate that, while the emission from the cooling envelope of a Type IIb supernova shows a slower decline rate than SHOOT14di, and the explosion of a red supergiant star with a dense circumstellar wind shows a redder color than SHOOT14di, the shock breakout at the stellar surface of the explosion of a red supergiant star with a small explosion energy of erg reproduces the multicolor light curve of SHOOT14di. This discovery shows that a high-cadence, multicolor optical transient survey at intervals of about one hour, and continuous and immediate follow-up observations, is important for studies of normal core-collapse supernovae at high redshifts.
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@article{arxiv.1909.03191,
title = {A rapidly declining transient discovered with Subaru/Hyper Suprime-Cam},
author = {Nozomu Tominaga and Tomoki Morokuma and Masaomi Tanaka and Naoki Yasuda and Hisanori Furusawa and Masayuki Tanaka and Ji-an Jiang and Alexey Tolstov and Sergei Blinnikov and Mamoru Doi and Ikuru Iwata and Hanindyo Kuncarayakti and Takashi J. Moriya and Tohru Nagao and Ken'ichi Nomoto and Junichi Noumaru and Tadafumi Takata},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.03191},
year = {2019}
}
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17 pages, 11 figures. Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal