Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Dec 1990
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1990a%26a...240l...1n&link_type=abstract
Astronomy and Astrophysics (ISSN 0004-6361), vol. 240, no. 1, Dec. 1990, p. L1-L4.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
47
B Stars, Binary Stars, Gravitational Collapse, Light Curve, Supernovae, Stellar Evolution, Stellar Mass, Stellar Models, Stellar Spectrophotometry, Wolf-Rayet Stars
Scientific paper
Using flux-calibrated spectra, a crude bolometric light curve of the type Ic ('helium-poor Ib') supernova 1987M is constructed. This curve has two important features that are difficult to understand in the context of previous Wolf-Rayet progenitor models: (1) near maximum brightness, SN 1987M was only about 0.5 mag less luminous than type Ia supernovae, significantly brighter than typical type Ib supernovae; and (2) the luminosity of SN 1987M fell more rapidly than that of type Ia and Ib supernovae. A theoretical light curve of an exploding 3.3 solar mass helium star which, in contrast to the previous models, is in good agreement with the observed light curve of SN 1987M is presented. It is shown that SN 1987M may have been the explosion of a helium star of 3-3.5 solar mass that began its life with 12-15 solar mass in a close binary system and gradually lost its mass to the companion.
Filippenko Alexei V.
Nomoto Ken
Shigeyama Toshikazu
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