Reddening, Abundances, and Line Formation in SNe II

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2007-03-04

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0703068v1

Astrophys.J.662:1148-1155,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

31 pages, 12 figures, ApJ (2007), in press

Scientific paper

10.1086/517961

We present detailed NLTE spectral synthesis models of the Type II supernova 2005cs, which occurred in M51 and for which the explosion time is well determined. We show that previous estimates for the reddening were significantly too high and briefly discuss how this will effect the inferred progenitor mass. We also show that standard CNO-burning enhanced abundances require far too large an oxygen depletion, although there is evidence for a single optical N II line and the sodium abundance shows clear evidence for enhancement over solar both as expected from CNO processing. Finally we calculate a distance using the SEAM method. Given the broad range of distances to M51 in the literature, the determination of a distance using Cepheid variables would be quite valuable.

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