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We carry out 3D-hydrodynamical calculations for the interaction of expanding supernova ejecta with the dense circumstellar matter (CSM) and the rarefied interstellar medium (ISM) outside. The CSM is composed of the stellar wind matter from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Takafumi Shimizu , Kuniaki Masai , Katsuji Koyama

The relationship between the mass-loss history and final evolutionary stage of massive stars and the properties of the observable supernova (SN) is still under debate. This is especially true for stripped-envelope (Type Ib/c) SNe, where the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-14 A. P. Nagy , B. H. Pál , T. Szalai

Hydrodynamical interaction of spherical ejecta freely expanding at mildly relativistic speeds into an ambient cold medium is studied in semi-analytical and numerical ways to investigate how ejecta produced in energetic stellar explosions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-04 Akihiro Suzuki , Keiichi Maeda , Toshikazu Shigeyama

Numerous core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) exhibit signatures of interaction with circumstellar material (CSM). Bright radio emission years after the SN is one such indication of dense CSM at large distances from the star, which may be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-13 Samantha C. Wu , Daichi Tsuna

Supernovae (SNe) with strong interactions with circumstellar material (CSM) are promising candidate sources of high-energy neutrinos and gamma rays, and have been suggested as an important contributor to Galactic cosmic rays beyond 1 PeV.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-27 Kohta Murase , Anna Franckowiak , Keiichi Maeda , Raffaella Margutti , John F. Beacom

We present the results of a series of 3D special relativistic hydrodynamic simulations of a gamma-ray burst (GRB) jet in a massive circumstellar medium (CSM) surrounding the progenitor star. Our simulations reproduce the jet morphology…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-12 Akihiro Suzuki , Christopher M. Irwin , Keiichi Maeda

Because mass loss is a fundamental phenomenon in massive stars, interaction with circumstellar material (CSM) should be universal in core-collapse supernovae (SNe). Leaving aside the extreme CSM density, extent, or mass typically…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 Luc Dessart , D. John Hillier

Supernovae (SNe) that show evidence of strong shock interaction between their ejecta and pre-existing, slower circumstellar material (CSM) constitute an interesting, diverse, and still poorly understood category of explosive transients. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-25 Nathan Smith

In a supernova explosion, the ejecta interacting with the surrounding circumstellar medium (CSM) give rise to variety of radiation. Since CSM is created from the mass lost from the progenitor star, it carries footprints of the late time…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-24 Poonam Chandra

Massive stars (>8 $M_{\odot}$) often undergo intense mass loss through winds or eruptive events in the final stages of their evolution, leading to the formation of a dense circumstellar medium (CSM). This material, expelled months to years…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-15 Silvia Gagliardini , Simone Dall'Osso , Dafne Guetta , Angela Zegarelli , Silvia Celli , Antonio Capone , Irene Di Palma

Multiwavelength observations have revealed that dense, confined circumstellar material (CCSM) commonly exists in the vicinity of supernova (SN) progenitors, suggesting enhanced mass losses years to centuries before their core collapse.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-15 Kohta Murase

Interacting supernovae provide key insights into the mass-loss processes of massive stars and their circumstellar environments. By analyzing their photometric and spectroscopic properties, we can study the complex interactions between…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-07 Anjasha Gangopadhyay

For supernova powered by the conversion of kinetic energy into radiation due to the interactions of the ejecta with a dense circumstellar shell, we show that there could be X-ray analogues of optically super-luminous SNe with comparable…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Tony Pan , Daniel J. Patnaude , Abraham Loeb

In this paper, we investigate two hydrogen-poor superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) iPTF15esb and iPTF13dcc whose light curves (LCs) show significant deviation from the smooth rise and fall. The LC of iPTF15esb exhibits two peaks and a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-11 Liang-Duan Liu , Ling-Jun Wang , Shan-Qin Wang , Zi-Gao Dai

We present HST WFC3/UVIS F275W near-UV imaging of 91stripped-envelope supernovae (SE SNe; Types IIb, Ib, Ic) from Snapshot program SNAP-16657, observed at phases of 270-1845 days (median 952 days) after first optical detection. We detect UV…

The origin of super-luminous supernovae (SLSNe), especially the source of their huge luminosities, has not been clarified yet. While a strong interaction between SN ejecta and dense circumstellar media (CSM) is a leading scenario,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-09-26 Takashi J. Moriya , Keiichi Maeda

We carry out a comprehensive study of supernova ejecta-companion interaction in massive binary systems. We aim to physically understand the kinematics of the interaction and predict observational signatures. To do this we perform…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-10 Ryosuke Hirai , Philipp Podsiadlowski , Shoichi Yamada

We present TransFit-CSM, a fast and physically consistent framework for modeling interaction-powered transients. The method self-consistently couples the ejecta circumstellar medium (CSM) shock dynamics to radiative diffusion from a moving…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-18 Yu-Hao Zhang , Liang-Duan Liu , Ze-Xin Du , Guang-Lei Wu , Jing-Yao Li , Yun-Wei Yu

In this study, we perform detailed spectroscopic modeling to analyze the interaction of circumstellar material (CSM) with ejecta in both hydrogen-rich and hydrogen-poor superluminous supernovae (SLSNe), systematically varying properties…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-07 Gururaj A. Wagle , Emmanouil Chatzopoulos , Michael J. Baer

Some supernova (SN) explosions show evidence for interaction with pre-existing non-spherically symmetric circumstellar medium (CSM) in their light curves, spectral line profiles, and polarization signatures. To better understand the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-28 P. Kurfürst , O. Pejcha , J. Krtička