A second glance at SN 2002ap and the M74 field with XMM-Newton

Details A second glance at SN 2002ap and the M74 field with XMM-Newton A second glance at SN 2002ap and the M74 field with XMM-Newton

2003-04-29

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0304526v2

Astron.Astrophys. 413 (2004) 107-120

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

13 pages, A&A, in press. Revised version with an expanded discussion of the X-ray behaviour of SN2002ap

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20031506

We have re-observed the field of M74 in January 2003 with XMM-Newton, 11 months after the X-ray detection of SN 2002ap. From a comparison of the two XMM-Newton observations we obtain more accurate values for the X-ray luminosity and colours of the source five days after the event, and a limit on its decline rate. We compare its X-ray behaviour (prompt soft X-ray emission, relatively low luminosity) with that of other Type Ic SNe, and speculate that SN 2002ap may share some physical properties (low mass-loss rate and high-velocity stellar wind from the progenitor star) with the candidate hypernova/GRB progenitor SN 1998bw, but with a lower (non-relativistic) speed of the ejecta. We suggest that the X-ray emission observed in 2002 is likely to come from the radiatively-cooling reverse shock, at a temperature kT ~ 0.8 keV, and that this soft component was already detected 5 d after the event because the absorbing column density of the cool shell between the forward and reverse shocks was only ~ 10^{20} cm^{-2}, ie, the shell was optically thin in the soft X-ray band. The new XMM-Newton data also allowed us to continue monitoring two bright variable sources in M74 that had reached peak luminosities > 10^{39} erg s^{-1} in previous XMM-Newton and Chandra observations. Finally, we used two Chandra observations from 2001 to investigate the luminosity and colour distribution of the X-ray source population of M74, typical of moderately-active late-type spirals.

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