SN 2020cpg: an energetic link between Type IIb and Ib supernovae
Abstract
Stripped-envelope supernovae (SE-SNe) show a wide variety of photometric and spectroscopic properties. This is due to the different potential formation channels and the stripping mechanism that allows for a large diversity within the progenitors outer envelope compositions. Here, the photometric and spectroscopic observations of SN 2020cpg covering ~130 d from the explosion date are presented. SN 2020cpg (z = 0.037) is a bright SE-SNe with the B-band peaking at MB = -17.75 ± 0.39 mag and a maximum pseudo-bolometric luminosity of Lmax = 6.03 ± 0.01 × 1042 erg s-1. Spectroscopically, SN 2020cpg displays a weak high- and low-velocity H α feature during the photospheric phase of its evolution, suggesting that it contained a detached hydrogen envelope prior to explosion. From comparisons with spectral models, the mass of hydrogen within the outer envelope was constrained to be ~0.1 M⊙. From the pseudo-bolometric light curve of SN 2020cpg a 56Ni mass of MNi ~ 0.27 ± 0.08 M⊙ was determined using an Arnett-like model. The ejecta mass and kinetic energy of SN 2020cpg were determined using an alternative method that compares the light curve of SN 2020cpg and several modelled SE-SNe, resulting in an ejecta mass of Mejc ~ 5.5 ± 2.0 M⊙ and a kinetic energy of EK ~ 9.0 ± 3.0 × 1051 erg. The ejected mass indicates a progenitor mass of 18-25 M⊙. The use of the comparative light curve method provides an alternative process to the commonly used Arnett-like model to determine the physical properties of SE-SNe.
- Publication:
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- September 2021
- DOI:
- 10.1093/mnras/stab1761
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2106.09505
- Bibcode:
- 2021MNRAS.506.1832M
- Keywords:
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- supernovae: general;
- supernovae: individual (SN 2020cpg);
- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
- E-Print:
- 19 pages, 10 figures, 7 tables