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The nearby Type Ibn supernova 2015G: Signatures of asymmetry and progenitor constraints

  • Isaac Shivvers
  • , Wei Kang Zheng
  • , Schuyler D. Van Dyk
  • , Jon Mauerhan
  • , Alexei V. Filippenko
  • , Nathan Smith
  • , Ryan J. Foley
  • , Paolo Mazzali
  • , Atish Kamble
  • , Charles D. Kilpatrick
  • , Raffaella Margutti
  • , Heechan Yuk
  • , Melissa L. Graham
  • , Patrick L. Kelly
  • , Jennifer Andrews
  • , Thomas Matheson
  • , W. Michael Wood-Vasey
  • , Kara A. Ponder
  • , Peter J. Brown
  • , Roger Chevalier
  • Dan Milisavljevic, Maria Drout, Jerod Parrent, Alicia Soderberg, Chris Ashall, Andrzej Piascik, Simon Prentice

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Abstract

We present the results of an extensive observational campaign on the nearby Type Ibn SN 2015G, including data from radio through ultravioletwavelengths. SN2015Gwas asymmetric, showing late-time nebular lines redshifted by ~1000 km s-1. It shared many features with the prototypical SN Ibn 2006jc, including extremely strong He I emission lines and a late-time blue pseudo-continuum. The young SN 2015G showed narrow P-Cygni profiles of He I, but never in its evolution did it showany signature of hydrogen - arguing for a dense, ionized and hydrogenfree circumstellar medium moving outward with a velocity of ~1000 km s-1 and created by relatively recent mass-loss from the progenitor star. Ultraviolet through infrared observations show that the fading SN 2015G (which was probably discovered some 20 d post-peak) had a spectral energy distribution that was well described by a simple, single-component blackbody. Archival HST images provide upper limits on the luminosity of SN 2015G's progenitor, while non-detections of any luminous radio afterglow and optical non-detections of outbursts over the past two decades provide constraints upon its mass-loss history.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)4381-4397
Number of pages17
JournalMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Volume471
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017

Keywords

  • Stars: mass-loss
  • Supernovae: individual: (SN 2015G)

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Space and Planetary Science

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