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SN 2004A: another Type II-P supernova with a red supergiant progenitor.
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society . 7/1/2006, Vol. 369 Issue 3, p1303-1320. 18p. 1 Black and White Photograph, 13 Charts, 20 Graphs. - Publication Year :
- 2006
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Abstract
- 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 and . 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 . Using this distance, we estimate that the ejected nickel mass in the explosion is . The progenitor of SN 2004A is identified in pre-explosion WFPC2 F814W images with a magnitude of , but is below the detection limit of the F606W images. We show that this was likely a red supergiant (RSG) with a mass of . The object is detected at 4.7σ above the background noise. Even if this detection is spurious, the 5σ upper limit would give a robust upper mass limit of for a RSG progenitor. These initial masses are very similar to those of two previously identified RSG progenitors of the Type II-P SNe and . [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00358711
- Volume :
- 369
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 21170491
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10374.x