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| DOI | 10.3847/2041-8213/AC31BF | ||||
| Año | 2021 | ||||
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We present deep, nebular-phase spectropolarimetry of the Type II-P/L SN 2013ej, obtained 167 days after explosion with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope. The polarized flux spectrum appears as a nearly perfect (92% correlation), redshifted (by ∼4000 km s−1) replica of the total flux spectrum. Such a striking correspondence has never been observed before in nebular-phase supernova spectropolarimetry, although data capable of revealing it have heretofore been only rarely obtained. Through comparison with 2D polarized radiative transfer simulations of stellar explosions, we demonstrate that localized ionization produced by the decay of a high-velocity, spatially confined clump of radioactive 56Ni—synthesized by and launched as part of the explosion with final radial velocity exceeding 4500 km s−1—can reproduce the observations through enhanced electron scattering. Additional data taken earlier in the nebular phase (day 134) yield a similarly strong correlation (84%) and redshift, whereas photospheric-phase epochs that sample days 8 through 97 do not. This suggests that the primary polarization signatures of the high-velocity scattering source only come to dominate once the thick, initially opaque hydrogen envelope has turned sufficiently transparent. This detection in an otherwise fairly typical core-collapse supernova adds to the growing body of evidence supporting strong asymmetries across nature’s most common types of stellar explosions, and establishes the power of polarized flux—and the specific information encoded by it in line photons at nebular epochs—as a vital tool in such investigations going forward.
| Ord. | Autor | Género | Institución - País |
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| 1 | Leonard, Douglas C. | Hombre |
San Diego State University - Estados Unidos
SAN DIEGO STATE UNIV - Estados Unidos SDSU College of Sciences - Estados Unidos |
| 2 | Dessart, Luc | - |
Sorbonne Université - Francia
Sorbonne Univ - Francia |
| 3 | Hillier, D. John | Hombre |
University of Pittsburgh - Estados Unidos
Univ Pittsburgh - Estados Unidos |
| 4 | Nicholl, M. | Hombre |
Universidad Nacional Andrés Bello - Chile
Instituto Milenio de Astrofísica - Chile |
| 5 | Williams, G. G. | - |
The University of Arizona - Estados Unidos
UNIV ARIZONA - Estados Unidos |
| 6 | Hoffman, Jennifer L. | Mujer |
University of Denver - Estados Unidos
Univ Denver - Estados Unidos |
| 7 | Milne, Peter | Hombre |
The University of Arizona - Estados Unidos
UNIV ARIZONA - Estados Unidos |
| 8 | Smith, N. | Hombre |
The University of Arizona - Estados Unidos
UNIV ARIZONA - Estados Unidos |
| 9 | Smith, Paul S. | Hombre |
The University of Arizona - Estados Unidos
UNIV ARIZONA - Estados Unidos |
| 10 | Khandrika, Harish G. | Hombre |
San Diego State University - Estados Unidos
Space Telescope Science Institute - Estados Unidos SAN DIEGO STATE UNIV - Estados Unidos Space Telescope Sci Inst - Estados Unidos SDSU College of Sciences - Estados Unidos |
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| NSF |
| NASA |
| CNES |
| Ministry of Economy, Development, and Tourism's Millennium Science Initiative |
| European Southern Observatory under ESO program |
| "Programme National de Physique Stellaire" of CNRS/INSU - CEA |
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| We thank an anonymous referee for helpful comments that improved the manuscript. This work was supported by the "Programme National de Physique Stellaire" of CNRS/INSU cofunded by CEA and CNES. D.J.H. thanks NASA for partial support through the astrophysical theory grant 80NSSC20K0524. D.C.L. acknowledges support from NSF grants AST-1009571, AST-1210311, and AST-2010001, under which part of this research was carried out. J.L.H. acknowledges support from NSF grants AST-1210372 and AST2009996. G.P. acknowledges support by the Ministry of Economy, Development, and Tourism's Millennium Science Initiative through grant ICN12_009, awarded to The Millennium Institute of Astrophysics, MAS. L.D. is grateful for the access to the HPC resources of CINES under the allocation 2018-A0050410554, 2019-A0070410554, and 2020A0090410554 made by GENCI, France. Based on observations collected at the European Southern Observatory under ESO program 091.D-0401(A). Additional observations reported here were obtained at the MMT Observatory, a joint facility of the University of Arizona and the Smithsonian Institution. |