Massive-Star Supernovae as Major Dust Factories
Abstract
We present late-time optical and mid-infrared observations of the Type-II supernova 2003gd in NGC 628. Mid-infrared excesses consistent with cooling dust in the ejecta are observed 499-678 days after outburst, and are accompanied by increasing optical extinction and growing asymmetries in the emission-line profiles. Radiative-transfer models show that up to 0.02 solar masses of dust has formed within the ejecta, beginning as early as 250 days after outburst. These observations show that dust formation in supernova ejecta can be efficient and that massive-star supernovae can be major dust producers throughout the history of the Universe.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0606132,
title = {Massive-Star Supernovae as Major Dust Factories},
author = {Ben E. K. Sugerman and Barbara Ercolano and M. J. Barlow and A. G. G. M. Tielens and Geoffrey C. Clayton and Albert A. Zijlstra and Margaret Meixner and Angela Speck and Tim M. Gledhill and Nino Panagia and Martin Cohen and Karl D. Gordon and Martin Meyer and Joanna Fabbri and J. E. Bowey and Douglas L. Welch and Michael W. Regan and Robert C. Kennicutt,},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0606132},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
11 pages, 1 figure. Accepted 2006 May 30 for publication in Science; Published in 2006 Jun 8 edition of Science Express; 2nd version fixes minor change in conclusion made in press