Infant-phase reddening by surface Fe-peak elements in a normal Type Ia Supernova

分类： 天文学 >> 天文学 提交时间： 2023-02-19

Yuan Qi Ni Dae-Sik Moon Maria R. Drout Abigail Polin David J. Sand Santiago Gonzalez-Gaitan Sang Chul Kim Youngdae Lee Hong Soo Park D. Andrew Howell Peter E. Nugent Anthony L. Piro Peter J. Brown Lluis Galbany Jamison Burke Daichi Hiramatsu Griffin Hosseinzadeh Stefano Valenti Niloufar Afsariardchi Jennifer E. Andrews

摘要： Type Ia Supernovae are thermonuclear explosions of white dwarf stars. They play a central role in the chemical evolution of the Universe and are an important measure of cosmological distances. However, outstanding questions remain about their origins. Despite extensive efforts to obtain natal information from their earliest signals, observations have thus far failed to identify how the majority of them explode. Here, we present infant-phase detections of SN 2018aoz from a brightness of -10.5 absolute AB magnitudes -- the lowest luminosity early Type Ia signals ever detected -- revealing a hitherto unseen plateau in the $B$-band that results in a rapid redward color evolution between 1.0 and 12.4 hours after the estimated epoch of first light. The missing $B$-band flux is best-explained by line-blanket absorption from Fe-peak elements in the outer 1% of the ejected mass. The observed $B-V$ color evolution of the SN also matches the prediction from an over-density of Fe-peak elements in the same outer 1% of the ejected mass, whereas bluer colors are expected from a purely monotonic distribution of Fe-peak elements. The presence of excess nucleosynthetic material in the extreme outer layers of the ejecta points to enhanced surface nuclear burning or extended sub-sonic mixing processes in some normal Type Ia Supernova explosions.

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