SN 2004A: another type II-P supernova with a red supergiant progenitor
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01/07/2006
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We present a monitoring study of SN 2004A and probable discovery of a progenitor star in pre-explosion Hubble Space Telescope (HST) images. The photometric and spectroscopic monitoring of SN 2004A show that it was a normal Type II-P which was discovered in NGC 6207 about two weeks after explosion. We compare SN 2004A to the similar Type II-P SN 1999em and estimate an explosion epoch of 2004 January 6. We also calculate three new distances to NGC 6207 of 21.0 +/- 4.3, 21.4 +/- 3.5 and 25.1 +/- 1.7 Mpc. The former was calculated using the Standard Candle Method (SCM) for SNe II-P, and the latter two from the brightest supergiants method (BSM). We combine these three distances with existing kinematic distances, to derive a mean value of 20.3 +/- 3.4 Mpc. Using this distance, we estimate that the ejected nickel mass in the explosion is 0.046(-0.017)(+0.031) M-circle dot. The progenitor of SN 2004A is identified in pre-explosion WFPC2 F814W images with a magnitude of m(F814W) = 24.3 +/- 0.3, but is below the detection limit of the F606W images. We show that this was likely a red supergiant (RSG) with a mass of 9(-2)(+3) M-circle dot. The object is detected at 4.7 sigma above the background noise. Even if this detection is spurious, the 5 sigma upper limit would give a robust upper mass limit of 12M(circle dot) for a RSG progenitor. These initial masses are very similar to those of two previously identified RSG progenitors of the Type II-P SNe 2004gd (8(-2)(+4) M circle dot) and 2005cs (9(-2)(+3) M-circle dot). |
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eng |
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info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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Hendry , M A , Smartt , S , Crockett , R , Maund , J , Gal-Yam , A , Moon , D S , Cenko , S B , Fox , D W , Kudritzki , R P , Benn , C & Ostensen , R 2006 , ' SN 2004A: another type II-P supernova with a red supergiant progenitor ' Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , vol 369 , no. 3 , pp. 1303-1320 . DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10374.x |
Palavras-Chave | #/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1900/1912 #Space and Planetary Science |
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