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The Flavours of SN II Light Curves

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2012

Iair Arcavi
Iair Arcavi*
Affiliation:
Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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We present R-Band light curves of Type II supernovae (SNe) from the Caltech Core Collapse Program (CCCP). With the exception of interacting (Type IIn) SNe and rare events with long rise times, we find that most light curve shapes belong to one of three distinct classes: plateau, slowly declining and rapidly declining events. The latter class is composed solely of Type IIb SNe which present similar light curve shapes to those of SNe Ib, suggesting, perhaps, similar progenitor channels. We do not find any intermediate light curves, implying that these subclasses are unlikely to reflect variance of continuous parameters, but rather might result from physically distinct progenitor systems, strengthening the suggestion of a binary origin for at least some stripped SNe. We find a large plateau luminosity range for SNe IIP, while the plateau lengths seem rather uniform at approximately 100 days. We present also host galaxy trends from the Palomar Transien Factory (PTF) core collapse SN sample, which augment some of the photometric results.

Keywords

supernovae: general
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 7 , Symposium S279: Death of Massive Stars: Supernovae and Gamma-Ray Bursts , April 2011 , pp. 34 - 39
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2012

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