Measuring Expansion Velocities in Type II-P Supernovae

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2011-09-27

arxiv.org/abs/1109.5873v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

19 pages, 10 figures, accepted in MNRAS

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We estimate photospheric velocities of Type II-P supernovae using model spectra created with SYNOW, and compare the results with those obtained by more conventional techniques, such as cross-correlation, or measuring the absorption minimum of P Cygni features. Based on a sample of 81 observed spectra of 5 SNe, we show that SYNOW provides velocities that are similar to ones obtained by more sophisticated NLTE modeling codes, but they can be derived in a less computation-intensive way. The estimated photospheric velocities (v_model) are compared to ones measured from Doppler-shifts of the absorption minima of the Hbeta and the FeII \lambda5169 features. Our results confirm that the FeII velocities (v_Fe) have tighter and more homogeneous correlation with the estimated photospheric velocities than the ones measured from Hbeta, but both suffer from phase-dependent systematic deviations from those. The same is true for comparison with the cross-correlation velocities. We verify and improve the relations between v_Fe, v_Hbeta and v_model in order to provide useful formulae for interpolating/extrapolating the velocity curves of Type II-P SNe to phases not covered by observations. We also discuss the implications of our results for the distance measurements of Type II-P SNe, and show that the application of the model velocities is preferred in the Expanding Photosphere Method.

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