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Light Curve Models for SN 2009dc

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 January 2013

Yasuomi Kamiya*
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, Graduate School of Science, the University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, Todai Institutes for Advanced Study, the University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583, Japan email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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Simplified explosion models of super-Chandrasekhar-mass C-O white dwarfs (WDs) are constructed with parameters such as WD mass and 56Ni mass. Their light curves are obtained by solving one-dimensional equations of radiation hydrodynamics, and compared with the observations of SN 2009dc, one of the overluminous Type Ia supernovae, to estimate its properties. As a result, the progenitor of SN 2009dc is suggested to be a 2.2–2.4-M C-O WD with 1.2–1.4 M of 56Ni, if the extinction by its host galaxy is negligible.

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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2013

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