Probing Shock Breakout with Serendipitous GALEX Detections of Two SNLS Type II-P Supernovae

Details Probing Shock Breakout with Serendipitous GALEX Detections of Two SNLS Type II-P Supernovae Probing Shock Breakout with Serendipitous GALEX Detections of Two SNLS Type II-P Supernovae

Publishing date

2008-04-07

URL

arxiv.org/abs/0804.1123v4

Journals

Astrophys.J. 683 (2008) L131

Science

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Field

Astrophysics

Additional info

4 pages, 3 color figures, accepted to ApJ Letters, emulateapj, corrections from proofs added

Type

Scientific paper

Digital Object Identifier

10.1086/591647

Abstract

We report the serendipitous detection by GALEX of fast (<1 day) rising (>1 mag) UV emission from two Type II plateau (II-P) supernovae (SNe) at z=0.185 and 0.324 discovered by the Supernova Legacy Survey. Optical photometry and VLT spectroscopy 2 weeks after the GALEX detections link the onset of UV emission to the time of shock breakout. Using radiation hydrodynamics and non-LTE radiative transfer simulations, and starting from a standard red supergiant (RSG; Type II-P SN progenitor) star evolved self-consistently from the main sequence to iron core collapse, we model the shock breakout phase and the 55 hr that follow. The small scale height of our RSG atmosphere model suggests that the breakout signature is a thermal soft X-ray burst (lambda_peak ~ 90\AA) with a duration of <~ 2000 s. Longer durations are possible but require either an extended and tenuous non-standard envelope, or an unusually dense RSG wind with \dot{M} ~ 10^(-3) Msun yr^(-1). The GALEX observations miss the peak of the luminous (M_FUV ~ -20) UV burst but unambiguously capture the rise of the emission and a subsequent 2 day long plateau. The postbreakout, UV-bright plateau is a prediction of our model in which the shift of the peak of the spectral energy distribution (SED) from ~100 to ~1000\AA and the ejecta expansion both counteract the decrease in bolometric luminosity from ~10^11 to ~10^9 L_sun over that period. Based on the observed detection efficiency of our study we make predictions for the breakout detection rate of the GALEX Time Domain Survey.

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