Supernova light curve models for the bump in the Optical Counterpart of X-Ray Flash 030723

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2004-05-07

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0405151v3

Astrophys.J. 612 (2004) L105-L108

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

10 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal (Letter), September 10, 2004. Revised version takin

Scientific paper

10.1086/424841

XRF 030723 is the first X-ray flash (XRF) to show in its optical light curve (LC) a bump that has been interpreted as the signature of a supernova (SN). After subtracting the afterglow component from the observed optical LC of the XRF counterpart, the properties of the putative SN are constrained by means of synthetic LCs of core-collapse SNe. For the redshift range $z \sim 0.3$ -- 1, all possible models require a rather small mass of synthesized \Nifs, i.e. $M$(\Nifs) $\sim$ 0.01 -- 0.3 $\Msun$. The models used to describe the energetic SNe Ic associated with gamma-ray bursts (SNe 1998bw and 2003dh) are too massive for the observed LC. If the relation between ejected \Nifs mass and total ejecta mass established from models of various Type Ic SNe also holds for the putative SN in XRF 030723, the ejecta mass is constrained to be $\sim$ 1 -- 3 $\Msun$ and the kinetic energy $\lsim 1\times 10^{52}$ erg. This corresponds to a progenitor with $15\Msun \lesssim M_{\rm MS}\lesssim 25\Msun$. The SN therefore appears to have properties intermediate between a normal SN Ic like SN 1994I and a more energetic object like SN 2002ap.

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