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XSNAP: An X-ray Supernova Analysis Pipeline with Application to the Type II Supernova 2024ggi

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2026-04-08 v3 Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Abstract

X-ray observations of Type II supernovae (SNe II) probe the physics of supernova (SN) shocks and the mass-loss histories of their progenitor stars. We present multi-epoch, X-ray observations of SN II 2024ggi (D7.2 MpcD \approx 7.2 \ \rm Mpc) from Swift{\it Swift}-XRT, Chandra{\it Chandra} and XMM{\it XMM}, which cover 1344\sim 1 - 344 days since first light. We analyze these observations using a new open-source Python package called XSNAP\texttt{XSNAP}, which standardizes a unified command-line interface for instrument-specific reduction and spectral extraction. XSNAP\texttt{XSNAP} introduces application programming interfaces for per-epoch spectral modeling through PyXspec\texttt{PyXspec} and emcee\texttt{emcee} Markov chain Monte Carlo fitting. We employ XSNAP{\tt XSNAP} to model the multi-epoch X-ray spectra of SN 2024ggi with an absorbed thermal bremsstrahlung model and calculate a steady progenitor mass-loss rate of (6.2±0.2)×105Myr1(6.2\pm0.2)\times10^{-5}\,M_{\odot}\,\mathrm{yr^{-1}} (vwind=20 km s1)(v_{\rm wind} = 20 \ \rm km \ s^{-1}), for which the detected X-ray emission traces the final 117 years before explosion. The software is publicly available on GitHub, with a released package on the Python Package Index (PyPI).

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2511.10744,
  title  = {XSNAP: An X-ray Supernova Analysis Pipeline with Application to the Type II Supernova 2024ggi},
  author = {Ferdinand and W. V. Jacobson-Galán and M. M. Kasliwal and Erez A. Zimmerman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.10744},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

12 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables, accepted to ApJ. Software code is available at https://xsnap.org or https://pypi.org/p/xsnap/