A Core-Collapse Supernova Model for the Extremely Luminous Type Ic Supernova 2007bi: An Alternative to the Pair-Instability Supernova Model

Details A Core-Collapse Supernova Model for the Extremely Luminous Type Ic Supernova 2007bi: An Alternative to the Pair-Instability Supernova Model A Core-Collapse Supernova Model for the Extremely Luminous Type Ic Supernova 2007bi: An Alternative to the Pair-Instability Supernova Model

2010-04-17

arxiv.org/abs/1004.2967v2

The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 717, Issue 2, pp. L83-L86 (2010)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

4 pages, 3 figures, 1 table, accepted by The Astrophysical Journal Letters

Scientific paper

10.1088/2041-8205/717/2/L83

We present a core-collapse supernova model for the extremely luminous Type Ic supernova 2007bi. By performing numerical calculations of hydrodynamics, nucleosynthesis, and radiation transport, we find that SN 2007bi is consistent with the core-collapse supernova explosion of a 43 Msun carbon and oxygen core obtained from the evolution of a progenitor star with a main sequence mass of 100 Msun and metallicity of Z = Zsun/200, from which its hydrogen and helium envelopes are artificially stripped. The ejecta mass and the ejecta kinetic energy of the models are 40 Msun and 3.6*10^{52} erg. The ejected 56Ni mass is as large as 6.1 Msun, which results from the explosive nucleosynthesis with large explosion energy. We also confirm that SN 2007bi is consistent with a pair-instability supernova model as has recently been claimed. We show that the earlier light curve data can discriminate between the models for such luminous supernovae.

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