SN 2025coe: A Multiple-Peaked Calcium-Strong Transient from A White-Dwarf Progenitor
Abstract
SN 2025coe is a calcium-strong transient located at an extremely large projected offset 39.3 kpc from the center of its host, the nearby early-type galaxy NGC 3277 at a distance of 25.5 Mpc. In this paper, we present multi-band photometric and spectroscopic observations spanning 100 days post-discovery. Its multi-band light curves display {multiple} distinct peaks: (1) an initial peak at days attributed to shock cooling emission, (2) a secondary peak of 15.8 mag at days powered by radioactive decay, and (3) a {possible} late-time bump at days likely caused by ejecta-circumstellar material/clump interaction. Spectral evolution of SN 2025coe reveals a fast transition to the nebular phase within 2 months, where it exhibits an exceptionally high [Ca II]/[O I] ratio larger than 6. Modeling of the bolometric light curve suggests an ejecta mass of , a Ni mass of , and a progenitor envelope with mass and radius . The tidal disruption of a hybrid HeCO white dwarf (WD) by a low-mass CO WD provides a natural explanation for the low ejecta mass, the small fraction of Ni, and the presence of an extended, low-mass envelope.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2510.00135,
title = {SN 2025coe: A Multiple-Peaked Calcium-Strong Transient from A White-Dwarf Progenitor},
author = {Chun Chen and Ning-Chen Sun and Qiang Xi and Samaporn Tinyanont and David Aguado and Ismael Pérez-Fournon and Frédérick Poidevin and Justyn R. Maund and Amit Kumar and Junjie Jin and Yiming Mao and Beichuan Wang and Yu Zhang and Zhen Guo and Wenxiong Li and César Rojas-Bravo and Rong-Feng Shen and Lingzhi Wang and Ziyang Wang and Guoying Zhao and Jie Zheng and Yinan Zhu and David López Fernández-Nespral and Alicia López-Oramas and Zexi Niu and Yanan Wang and Klaas Wiersema and Jifeng Liu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.00135},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
12 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ