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Following an initial explosion that might be launched either by magnetic interactions or neutrinos, a rotating magnetar radiating according to the classic dipole formula could power a very luminous supernova. While some 56Ni might be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 S. E. Woosley

The first light from a supernova (SN) emerges once the SN shock breaks out of the stellar surface. The first light, typically a UV or X-ray flash, is followed by a broken power-law decay of the luminosity generated by radiation that leaks…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Ehud Nakar , Re'em Sari

We investigate broad-band emission from supernova ejecta powered by a relativistic wind from a central compact object. A recent two-dimensional hydrodynamic simulation studying the dynamical evolution of supernova ejecta with a central…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-02 Akihiro Suzuki , Keiichi Maeda

Magnetic spin-down of a millisecond neutron star has been proposed as the power source of hydrogen-poor "superluminous" supernovae (SLSNe-I). However, producing an unambiguous test that can distinguish this model from alternatives, such as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Brian D. Metzger , Indrek Vurm , Romain Hascoet , Andrei M. Beloborodov

We investigate effects of aspherical energy deposition in core-collapse supernovae on the light curve of the supernova shock breakout. We performed two-dimensional hydrodynamical calculations of an aspherical supernova explosion to obtain…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Akihiro Suzuki , Toshikazu Shigeyama

We perform a series of two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the rotational core-collapse of a magnetized massive star. We employ a realistic equation of state and take into account the neutrino cooling by the so-called leakage…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Tomoya Takiwaki , Kei Kotake , Shigehiro Nagataki , Katsuhiko Sato

Luminosity evolution of some stripped-envelope supernovae such as Type I superluminous supernovae is difficult to be explained by the canonical 56Ni nuclear decay heating. A popular alternative heating source is rapid spin down of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-07 Takashi J. Moriya , Kohta Murase , Kazumi Kashiyama , Sergei I. Blinnikov

The idea of the magnetorotational explosion mechanism is that the energy of rotation of the neutron star formed in the course of a collapse is transformed into the energy of an expanding shock wave by means of a magnetic field. In the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-01 G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan , S. G. Moiseenko , N. V. Ardelyan

Magnetar-powered supernova explosions are competitive models for explaining very luminous optical transits. However, these explosion models were mainly calculated in 1D. Radiation emitted from the magnetar snowplows into the previous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-22 Ke-Jung Chen

Superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) are massive star explosions too luminous to be powered by traditional energy sources, such as radioactive 56Ni. These transients may instead be powered by a central engine, such as a millisecond pulsar or…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-25 Indrek Vurm , Brian D. Metzger

We explore the effect of pulsars, in particular those born with millisecond periods, on their surrounding supernova ejectas. While they spin down, fast-spinning pulsars release their tremendous rotational energy in the form of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Kumiko Kotera , E. Sterl Phinney , Angela V. Olinto

Several types of energetic supernovae, such as superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) and broad-line Ic supernovae (Ic-BL SNe), could be powered by the spin-down of a rapidly rotating magnetar. Currently, most models used to infer the parameters…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-28 Conor M. B. Omand , Nikhil Sarin

This work presents the semi-analytical light curve modelling results of 11 stripped-envelope SNe (SESNe), where millisecond magnetars potentially drive their light curves. The light-curve modelling is performed utilizing the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-13 Amit Kumar

Supernova 2011kl, associated with the ultra-long gamma-ray burst (ULGRB) 111209A, exhibited a higher-than-normal peak luminosity, placing it in the parameter space between regular supernovae and super-luminous supernovae. Its light curve…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-19 B. P. Gompertz , A. S. Fruchter

A rapidly rotating and highly magnetized remnant neutron star (NS; magnetar) could survive from a merger of double NSs and drive a powerful relativistic wind. The early interaction of this wind with the previous merger ejecta can lead to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-15 Guang-Lei Wu , Yun-Wei Yu , Shao-Ze Li

Observations from the last decade have indicated the existence of a general class of superluminous supernovae (SLSNe), in which the peak luminosity exceeds 10^{44} erg/s. Here we focus on a subclass of these events, where the light curve is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Sivan Ginzburg , Shmuel Balberg

Wolf-Rayet stars in close binary systems can be tidally spun up by their companions, potentially leaving behind fast-spinning highly-magnetized neutron stars, known as ``magnetars", after core collapse. These newborn magnetars can transfer…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-01 Jin-Ping Zhu , Liang-Duan Liu , Yun-Wei Yu , Ilya Mandel , Ryosuke Hirai , Bing Zhang , Aming Chen

The central engines of some superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) are generally suggested to be newly born fast rotating magnetars, which spin down mainly through magnetic dipole radiation and gravitational wave emission. We calculate the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-13 Quan Cheng , Shuang-Nan Zhang , Yun-Wei Yu , Xiao-Ping Zheng

Recent work has revealed that the light curves of hydrogen-poor (Type I) superluminous supernovae (SLSNe), thought to be powered by magnetar central engines, do not always follow the smooth decline predicted by a simple magnetar spin-down…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-14 Griffin Hosseinzadeh , Edo Berger , Brian D. Metzger , Sebastian Gomez , Matt Nicholl , Peter Blanchard

Extended emission gamma-ray bursts are a subset of the `short' class of burst which exhibit an early time rebrightening of gamma emission in their light curves. This extended emission arises just after the initial emission spike, and can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Ben Gompertz , Paul O'Brien , Graham Wynn , Antonia Rowlinson