A Spitzer Space Telescope study of SN 2002hh: an infrared echo from a Type IIP supernova

Details A Spitzer Space Telescope study of SN 2002hh: an infrared echo from a Type IIP supernova A Spitzer Space Telescope study of SN 2002hh: an infrared echo from a Type IIP supernova

2006-05-23

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0605584v2

Astrophys.J.649:332-344,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

41 pages, 11 figures, 4 tables, accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal (References corrected)

Scientific paper

10.1086/506143

We present late-time (590-994 d) mid-IR photometry of the normal, but highly-reddened Type IIP supernova SN 2002hh. Bright, cool, slowly-fading emission is detected from the direction of the supernova. Most of this flux appears not to be driven by the supernova event but instead probably originates in a cool, obscured star-formation region or molecular cloud along the line-of-sight. We also show, however, that the declining component of the flux is consistent with an SN-powered IR echo from a dusty progenitor CSM. Mid-IR emission could also be coming from newly-condensed dust and/or an ejecta/CSM impact but their contributions are likely to be small. For the case of a CSM-IR echo, we infer a dust mass of as little as 0.036 M(solar) with a corresponding CSM mass of 3.6(0.01/r(dg))M(solar) where r(dg) is the dust-to-gas mass ratio. Such a CSM would have resulted from episodic mass loss whose rate declined significantly about 28,000 years ago. Alternatively, an IR echo from a surrounding, dense, dusty molecular cloud might also have been responsible for the fading component. Either way, this is the first time that an IR echo has been clearly identified in a Type IIP supernova. We find no evidence for or against the proposal that Type IIP supernovae produce large amounts of dust via grain condensation in the ejecta. However, within the CSM-IR echo scenario, the mass of dust derived implies that the progenitors of the most common of core-collapse supernovae may make an important contribution to the universal dust content.

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