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Recent observations indicate that hydrogen-poor superluminous supernovae often display bumpy declining light curves. However, the cause of these undulations remains unclear. In this paper, we have improved the magnetar model, which includes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-12 Xiao-Fei Dong , Liang-Duan Liu , He Gao , Sheng Yang

Core-collapse supernovae (SNe) expand into a medium created by winds from the pre-SN progenitor. The SN explosion and resulting shock wave(s) heat up the surrounding plasma, giving rise to thermal X-ray emission, which depends on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-07 Vandana Ramakrishnan , Vikram V. Dwarkadas

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

Superluminous supernova (SLSN) lightcurves exhibit a superior diversity compared to their regular luminosity counterparts in terms of rise and decline timescales, peak luminosities and overall shapes. It remains unclear whether this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-03 Emmanouil Chatzopoulos , Richard Tuminello

The luminosity of ``stripped-envelope supernovae'', a common type of stellar explosions, has been generally thought to be driven by the radioactive decay of the nickel synthesized in the explosion and carried in its ejecta. Additional…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-18 Ósmar Rodríguez , Ehud Nakar , Dan Maoz

A large fraction of core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe), 30-50%, are expected to originate from the low-mass end of progenitors with $M_{\rm ZAMS}~= 8-12~M_\odot$. However, degeneracy effects make stellar evolution modelling of such stars…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-24 A. Jerkstrand , T. Ertl , H. -T. Janka , E. Müller , T. Sukhbold , S. E. Woosley

Stripped-envelope supernovae (SE SNe) were considered as the explosions of single massive stars with strong stellar winds, while later observations favor binary origins. One direct evidence to support the binary origins is to find the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-14 Hsin-Pei Chen , Shiau-Jie Rau , Kuo-Chuan Pan

Type IIn supernovae (SNeIIn) are a highly heterogeneous subclass of core-collapse supernovae, spectroscopically characterized by signatures of interaction with a dense circumstellar medium (CSM). Here we systematically model the light…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-18 C. L. Ransome , V. A. Villar

Data are presently available on 156 supernovae (SNe) of known type that have occurred in spirals of types Sa-Sc having inclinations i < 70 degrees. The surface density distribution of SN Ibc + SN II is found to be an exponential with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Sidney van den Bergh

We present optical imaging and spectroscopy of SN\,2018lfe, which we classify as a Type I superluminous supernova (SLSN-I) at a redshift of $z = 0.3501$ with a peak absolute magnitude of $M_r\approx -22.1$ mag, one of the brightest SLSNe…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-01 Yao Yin , Sebastian Gomez , Edo Berger , Griffin Hosseinzadeh , Matt Nicholl , Peter K. Blanchard

A subset of type Ic supernovae (SNe Ic), broad-lined SNe Ic (SNe Ic-bl), show unusually high kinetic energies ($\sim 10^{52}$ erg) which cannot be explained by the energy supplied by neutrinos alone. Many SNe Ic-bl have been observed in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-27 Swapnil Shankar , Philipp Mösta , Jennifer Barnes , Paul C. Duffell , Daniel Kasen

The very peculiar abundance patterns observed in extremely metal-poor (EMP) stars can not be explained by ordinary supernova nucleosynthesis but can be well-reproduced by nucleosynthesis in hyper-energetic and hyper-aspherical explosions,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-05-15 Keni'chi Nomoto , Masaomi Tanaka , Yasuomi Kamiya , Nozomu Tominaga , Keiichi Maeda

Core-collapse supernovae (SNe), marking the deaths of massive stars, are among the most powerful explosions in the Universe, responsible, e.g., for a predominant synthesis of chemical elements in their host galaxies. The majority of massive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 Schuyler D. Van Dyk , Selma E. de Mink , Emmanouil Zapartas

Some hydrogen-poor (Type Ibc) supernovae (SNe) are known to have massive circumstellar matter (CSM) that are well detached from the star. Using the open-source code CHIPS, we construct a grid of models of SN Ibc interacting with detached…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-20 Yuki Takei , Daichi Tsuna

In this paper we collect 19 hydrogen-deficient superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) and fit their light curves, temperature evolution, and velocity evolution based on the magnetar-powered model. To obtain the best-fitting parameters, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-21 Liang-Duan Liu , Shan-Qin Wang , Ling-Jun Wang , Zi-Gao Dai , Hai Yu , Zong-Kai Peng

Type Ic supernovae represent the explosions of the most stripped massive stars, but their progenitors and explosion mechanisms remain unclear. Larger samples of observed supernovae can help characterize the population of these transients.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-19 C. Barbarino , J. Sollerman , F. Taddia , C. Fremling , E. Karamehmetoglu , I. Arcavi , A. Gal-Yam , R. Laher , S. Schulze , P. Wozniak , Lin Yan

Fast-declining Type Ia supernovae (SN Ia) separate into two categories based on their bolometric and near-infrared (NIR) properties. The peak bolometric luminosity ($\mathrm{L_{max}}$), the phase of the first maximum relative to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-28 S. Dhawan , B. Leibundgut , J. Spyromilio , S. Blondin

Core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) are the explosions of massive stars following the collapse of the stars' iron cores. Poznanski (2013) has recently suggested an observational correlation between the ejecta velocities and the inferred masses…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-10 Doron Kushnir

The fate of stars in the zero-age main-sequence (ZAMS) range $\approx 8-12$ Msun is unclear. They could evolve to form white dwarfs or explode as electron-capture supernovae (SNe) or iron core-collapse SNe (CCSNe). Even though the initial…

Multi-frequency observations of two radio bright SNe (SN1993J, SN1979C) carried out over a year with GMRT are presented. Their radio light curves trace the evolution of the mass loss in the stellar wind before the pre-supernova star…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Poonam Chandra , Alak Ray , Sanjay Bhatnagar