Hubble Space Telescope WFPC2 Imaging of SN 1979C and Its Environment

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1998-10-22

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9810375v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

18 pages, 8 figures, submitted to PASP

Scientific paper

10.1086/316331

The locations of supernovae in the local stellar and gaseous environment in galaxies contain important clues to their progenitor stars. As part of a program to study the environments of supernovae using Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imaging data, we have examined the environment of the Type II-L SN 1979C in NGC 4321 (M100). We place more rigorous constraints on the mass of the SN progenitor, which may have had a mass M \approx 17--18 M_sun. Moreover, we have recovered and measured the brightness of SN 1979C, m=23.37 in F439W (~B; m_B(max) = 11.6), 17 years after explosion. .

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