Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-01-14
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
6 figures. Accepted by PASP
Scientific paper
10.1086/342493
We present photometry of 12 recent supernovae (SNe) recovered in a {\it Hubble Space Telescope} Snapshot program, and tie the measurements to earlier ground-based observations, in order to study the late-time evolution of the SNe. Many of the ground-based measurements are previously unpublished, and were made primarily with a robotic telescope, the Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope. Evidence for circumstellar interaction is common among the core-collapse SNe. Late-time decline rates for Type IIn SNe are found to span a wide range, perhaps due to differences in circumstellar interaction. An extreme case, SN IIn 1995N, declined by only 1.2 mag in $V$ over about 4 years following discovery. Template images of some SNe must therefore be obtained many years after the explosion, if contamination from the SN itself is to be minimized. Evidence is found against a previous hypothesis that the Type IIn SN 1997bs was actually a superoutburst of a luminous blue variable star. The peculiar SN Ic 1997ef, a "hypernova," declined very slowly at late times. The decline rate of the SN Ia 2000cx decreased at late times, but this is unlikely to have been caused by a light echo.
Filippenko Alexei V.
Hu Jingyao
Leonard Douglas C.
Li Weidong
Modjaz Maryam
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