Oriented Scintillation Spectrometer Experiment observations of Co-57 in SN 1987A

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Nov 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992apj...399l.137k&link_type=abstract

Astrophysical Journal, Part 2 - Letters (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 399, no. 2, p. L137-L140.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

88

Cobalt Isotopes, Nuclear Astrophysics, Scintillation Counters, Stellar Spectrophotometry, Supernova 1987A, Energy Spectra, Gamma Ray Observatory, Stellar Luminosity, Stellar Models

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The Oriented Scintillation Spectrometer Experiment (OSSE) on the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory has observed SN 1987A for two 2 week periods during the first 9 months of the mission. Evidence for gamma-ray line and continuum emission from Co-57 is observed with an intensity of about 10 exp -4 gamma/sq cm/s. This photon flux between 50 and 136 keV is demonstrated by Monte Carlo calculations to be independent of the radial distribution of Co-57 for models of low optical depth, viz., models having photoelectric absorption losses of 122 keV photons no greater than several percent. For such models the observed Co-57 flux indicates that the ratio Ni-57/Ni-56 produced in the explosion was about 1.5 times the solar system ratio of Fe-57/Fe-56. When compared with nearly contemporaneous bolometric estimates of the luminosity for SN 1987A, our observations imply that Co-57 radioactivity does not account for most of the current luminosity of the supernova remnant in low optical depth models. We suggest alternatives, including a large optical depth model that is able to provide the SN 1987A luminosity and is consistent with the OSSE flux. It requires a 57/56 production ratio about twice solar.

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