2015MNRAS.454.1948G -
Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 454, 1948-1957 (2015/December-1)
Constraining the progenitor companion of the nearby Type Ia SN 2011fe with a nebular spectrum at +981 d.
GRAHAM M.L., NUGENT P.E., SULLIVAN M., FILIPPENKO A.V., CENKO S.B., SILVERMAN J.M., CLUBB K.I. and ZHENG W.
Abstract (from CDS):
We present an optical nebular spectrum of the nearby Type Ia supernova 2011fe, obtained 981 d after explosion. SN 2011fe exhibits little evolution since the +593 d optical spectrum, but there are several curious aspects in this new extremely late-time regime. We suggest that the persistence of the ∼ 5800 Å feature is due to NaI D, and that a new emission feature at ∼ 7300 Å may be [CaII]. Also, we discuss whether the new emission feature at ∼ 6400 Å might be [FeI] or the high-velocity hydrogen predicted by Mazzali et al. The nebular feature at 5200 Å exhibits a linear velocity evolution of ∼ 350 kms- 1 per 100 d from at least +220 to +980 d, but the line's shape also changes in this time, suggesting that line blending contributes to the evolution. At ∼ 1000 d after explosion, flux from the SN has declined to a point where contribution from a luminous secondary could be detected. In this work, we make the first observational tests for a post-impact remnant star and constrain its temperature and luminosity to T ≳ 104KandL ≲ 104L☉. Additionally, we do not see any evidence for narrow H α emission in our spectrum. We conclude that observations continue to strongly exclude many single-degenerate scenarios for SN 2011fe.
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© 2015 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society (2015)
Journal keyword(s):
supernovae: general - supernovae: individual: SN 2011fe
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