Synthetic Spectra of Hydrodynamic Models of Type Ia Supernovae

Details Synthetic Spectra of Hydrodynamic Models of Type Ia Supernovae Synthetic Spectra of Hydrodynamic Models of Type Ia Supernovae

1996-12-04

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9612044v1

Astrophys.J.485:812-819,1997

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

submitted to ApJ, 26 pages, 10 figures, uses LaTeX styles aasms4.sty and natbib.sty Also available at: http://www.nhn.ou.edu/~

Scientific paper

10.1086/304459

We present detailed NLTE synthetic spectra of hydrodynamic SNe Ia models. We make no assumptions about the form of the spectrum at the inner boundary. We calculate both Chandrasekhar-mass deflagration models and sub-Chandrasekhar ``helium detonators.'' Gamma-ray deposition is handled in a simple, accurate manner. We have parameterized the storage of energy that arises from the time dependent deposition of radioactive decay energy in a reasonable manner, that spans the expected range. We find that the Chandrasekhar-mass deflagration model W7 of Nomoto etal shows good agreement with the observed spectra of SN 1992A and SN 1994D, particularly in the UV, where our models are expected to be most accurate. The sub-Chandrasekhar models do not reproduce the UV deficit observed in normal SNe Ia. They do bear some resemblance to sub-luminous SNe Ia, but the shape of the spectra (i.e. the colors) are opposite to that of the observed ones and the intermediate mass element lines such as Si II, and Ca II are extremely weak, which seems to be a generic difficulty of the models. Although the sub-Chandrasekhar models have a significant helium abundance (unlike Chandrasekhar-mass models), helium lines are not prominent in the spectra near maximum light and thus do not act as a spectral signature for the progenitor.

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