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2023MNRAS.523.3885S - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 523, 3885-3904 (2023/August-2)

The path from the Chinese and Japanese observations of supernova 1181 AD, to a Type Iax supernova, to the merger of CO and ONe white dwarfs.

SCHAEFER B.E.

Abstract (from CDS):

In 1181 AD, Chinese and Japanese observers reported an unmoving bright 'Guest Star' in the constellation Chuanshe, visible for 185 d. In 2013, D. Patchick discovered what turned out to be a unique nebula surrounding a unique star, with the structure named 'Pa 30', while subsequent workers made connections to mergers of white dwarfs, to the supernova subclass of low-luminosity Type Iax, and to the 1181 transient. Here, I provide a wide range of new observational pieces of evidence: First, detailed analysis of the original Chinese and Japanese reports places the 'Guest Star' of 1181 into a small region with the only interesting source being Pa 30. Second, the ancient records confidently place the peak magnitude as 0.0 > Vpeak > -1.4, and hence peak absolute magnitude -14.5 >M_V, peak_>-16.0 mag. Third, the Pa 30 central star is fading from B = 14.9 in 1889, to B = 16.20 in 1950, to B = 16.58 in 2022. Fourth, recent light curves show typical variability with full amplitude of 0.24 mag on time-scales of 1 d and longer, critically with no coherent modulations for periods from 0.00046-10 d to strict limits. Fifth, the spectral energy distribution from the far-infrared to the ultraviolet is a nearly perfect power law with Fν ∝ ν^0.99 ± 0.07^, observed luminosity 128 ± 24 L⊙, and absolute magnitude MV = +1.07. I collect my new pieces of evidence with literature results to make a confident case to connect the East-Asian observations to a supernova, then to Pa 30, then to a low-luminosity Type Iax SN, then to the only possible explosion mechanism as a merger between CO and ONe white dwarfs.

Abstract Copyright: © 2023 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society

Journal keyword(s): supernovae: general - supernovae: individual: SN 1181

Simbad objects: 31

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