X-ray and radio prompt emission from a hypernova SN 2002ap
Abstract
Here we report on combined X-ray and radio observations of SN 2002ap with XMM-Newton ToO observation and GMRT observations aided with VLA published results. In deriving the X-ray flux of SN 2002ap we account for the contribution of a nearby source, found to be present in the pre-SN explosion images obtained with Chandra observatory. We also derive upper limits on mass loss rate from X-ray and radio data. We suggest that the prompt X-ray emission is non-thermal in nature and its is due to the repeated compton boosting of optical photons. We also compare SN's early radiospheric properties with two other SNe at the same epoch.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0311425,
title = {X-ray and radio prompt emission from a hypernova SN 2002ap},
author = {P. Chandra and A. Ray and F. Sutaria},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0311425},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 5 figures. Uses espcrc2.sty. To appear in proceedings of symposium on X-ray astronomy "The Restless High-Energy Universe", May 2003, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, eds. E.P.J. van den Heuvel, J.J.M. in 't Zand, and R.A.M.J. Wijers