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Probing Presupernova Mass Loss in Double-peaked Type Ibc Supernovae from the Zwicky Transient Facility

  • 1. ROR icon California Institute of Technology
  • 2. ROR icon Stockholm University
  • 3. ROR icon Weizmann Institute of Science
  • 4. ROR icon SUNY Polytechnic Institute
  • 5. ROR icon University of Maryland, College Park
  • 6. ROR icon Goddard Space Flight Center
  • 7. ROR icon University of California, Berkeley
  • 8. ROR icon Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • 9. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Watanabe 416, 2505 Correa Road, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
  • 10. ROR icon Infrared Processing and Analysis Center
  • 11. ROR icon Liverpool John Moores University
  • 12. ROR icon New York State Office for People With Developmental Disabilities
  • 13. ROR icon Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • 14. ROR icon Cornell University
  • 15. ROR icon Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies
  • 16. ROR icon The Ohio State University
  • 17. ROR icon Drexel University
  • 18. ROR icon University of California, Santa Cruz
  • 19. ROR icon AlbaNova
  • 20. ROR icon Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova

Abstract

Eruptive mass loss of massive stars prior to supernova (SN) explosion is key to understanding their evolution and end fate. An observational signature of pre-SN mass loss is the detection of an early, short-lived peak prior to the radioactive-powered peak in the lightcurve of the SN. This is usually attributed to the SN shock passing through an extended envelope or circumstellar medium. Such an early peak is common for double-peaked Type IIb SNe with an extended hydrogen envelope but uncommon for normal Type Ibc SNe with very compact progenitors. In this paper, we systematically study a sample of 14 double-peaked Type Ibc SNe out of 475 Type Ibc SNe detected by the Zwicky Transient Facility. The rate of these events is ∼3%–9% of Type Ibc SNe. A strong correlation is seen between the peak brightness of the first and the second peak. We perform a holistic analysis of this sample’s photometric and spectroscopic properties. We find that six SNe have ejecta mass less than 1.5 M. Based on the nebular spectra and lightcurve properties, we estimate that the progenitor masses for these are less than ∼12 M. The rest have an ejecta mass >2.4 M and a higher progenitor mass. This sample suggests that the SNe with low progenitor masses undergo late-time binary mass transfer. Meanwhile, the SNe with higher progenitor masses are consistent with wave-driven mass loss or pulsation-pair instability-driven mass-loss simulations.

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© 2024. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society. Original content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI.

Acknowledgement

We thank Anthony L. Piro for insightful discussions and comments. We would also like to thank Daniel Brethauer for providing the data used in Brethauer et al. (2022). Based on observations obtained with the Samuel Oschin Telescope 48 inch and the 60 inch telescope at the Palomar Observatory as part of the Zwicky Transient Facility project. ZTF is supported by the National Science Foundation under grant No. AST-2034437 and a collaboration including Caltech, IPAC, the Weizmann Institute of Science, the Oskar Klein Center at Stockholm University, the University of Maryland, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron and Humboldt University, the TANGO Consortium of Taiwan, the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, Trinity College Dublin, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, IN2P3, France, the University of Warwick, the University of Bochum, and Northwestern University. Operations are conducted by COO, IPAC, and UW.

SED Machine is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grant No. 1106171.

The ZTF forced-photometry service was funded under the Heising-Simons Foundation grant No. 12540303 (PI: Graham).

The GROWTH Marshal was supported by the GROWTH project funded by the National Science Foundation under grant No. 1545949.

The data presented here were obtained in part with ALFOSC, which is provided by the Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia (IAA) under a joint agreement with the University of Copenhagen and NOT.

The Liverpool Telescope is operated on the island of La Palma by Liverpool John Moores University in the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias with financial support from the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council. Based on observations made with the Italian Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG) operated on the island of La Palma by the Fundación Galileo Galilei of the INAF (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica) at the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias.

The W. M. Keck Observatory is operated as a scientific partnership among the California Institute of Technology, the University of California, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The Observatory was made possible by the generous financial support of the W. M. Keck Foundation. The authors wish to recognize and acknowledge the very significant cultural role and reverence that the summit of Maunakea has always had within the indigenous Hawaiian community. We are most fortunate to have the opportunity to conduct observations from this mountain. The ztfquery code was funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement No. 759194−USNAC; PI: Rigault).

S.-C. L. acknowledges the support by the National Science Foundation under Grant AST-2316807.

Data Availability

All the photometric and spectroscopic data used in this work will be available here after publication.

The optical photometry and spectroscopy will also be made public through WISeREP, the Weizmann Interactive Supernova Data Repository (Yaron & Gal-Yam 2012).

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Funding

National Science Foundation
AST-2034437
National Science Foundation
1106171
Heising-Simons Foundation
12540303
National Science Foundation
1545949
Science and Technology Facilities Council
W. M. Keck Foundation
European Research Council
759194
National Science Foundation
AST-2316807

Dates

Accepted
2024-05-24
Available
2024-08-27
Published online

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Astronomy Department, Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC), TAPIR, Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics, Zwicky Transient Facility, Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy (PMA)
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