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Gamma-rays from Type Ia supernova SN2014J

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2015-10-14 v2

Abstract

The whole set of INTEGRAL observations of type Ia supernova SN2014J, covering the period 19-162 days after the explosion has being analyzed. For spectral fitting the data are split into "early" and "late" periods covering days 19-35 and 50-162, respectively, optimized for 56^{56}Ni and 56^{56}Co lines. As expected for the early period much of the gamma-ray signal is confined to energies below \sim200 keV, while for the late period it is most strong above 400 keV. In particular, in the late period 56^{56}Co lines at 847 and 1248 keV are detected at 4.7 and 4.3 σ\sigma respectively. The lightcurves in several representative energy bands are calculated for the entire period. The resulting spectra and lightcurves are compared with a subset of models. We confirm our previous finding that the gamma-ray data are broadly consistent with the expectations for canonical 1D models, such as delayed detonation or deflagration models for a near-Chandrasekhar mass WD. Late optical spectra (day 136 after the explosion) show rather symmetric Co and Fe lines profiles, suggesting that unless the viewing angle is special, the distribution of radioactive elements is symmetric in the ejecta.

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@article{arxiv.1502.00255,
  title  = {Gamma-rays from Type Ia supernova SN2014J},
  author = {E. Churazov and R. Sunyaev and J. Isern and I. Bikmaev and E. Bravo and N. Chugai and S. Grebenev and P. Jean and J. Knödlseder and F. Lebrun and E. Kuulkers},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.00255},
  year   = {2015}
}

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21 pages, 16 figures, accepted by ApJ

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