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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hayden, Brian T
• Garnavich, Peter M
• Kasen, Daniel
• Dilday, Benjamin
• Frieman, Joshua A
• Jha, Saurabh W
• Lampeitl, Hubert
• Nichol, Robert C
• Sako, Masao
• Schneider, Donald P
• Smith, Mathew
• Sollerman, Jesper
• Wheeler, J. Craig

Titel

Single or Double Degenerate Progenitors? Searching for Shock Emission in the SDSS-II Type Ia Supernovae

Ist Teil von

• The Astrophysical journal, 2010-10, Vol.722 (2), p.1691-1698

Ort / Verlag

Bristol: IOP Publishing

Erscheinungsjahr

2010

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Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• From the set of nearly 500 spectroscopically confirmed Type Ia supernovae (SNe) and around 10,000 unconfirmed candidates from SDSS-II, we select a subset of 108 confirmed SNe Ia with well-observed early-time light curves to search for signatures from shock interaction of the SN with a companion star. No evidence for shock emission is seen; however, the cadence and photometric noise could hide a weak shock signal. We simulate shocked light curves using SN Ia templates and a simple Gaussian shock model to emulate the noise properties of the SDSS-II sample and estimate the detectability of the shock interaction signal as a function of shock amplitude, shock width, and shock fraction. We find no direct evidence for shock interaction in the rest-frame B-band, but place an upper limit on the shock amplitude at 9% of SN peak flux (MB > -- 16.6 mag). If the single degenerate channel dominates type Ia progenitors, this result constrains the companion stars to be less than about 6 M on the main sequence and strongly disfavors red giant companions.