The Chemical Distribution in a Subluminous Type Ia Supernova: HST Images of the SN 1885 Remnant

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2006-11-25

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0611779v1

Astrophys.J.658:396-409,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

18 pages, 14 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/510998

We present HST images of the remnant of SN 1885 seen in absorption against M31's bulge via resonance lines of Ca I, Ca II, Fe I, and Fe II. Viewed in CaII H & K line absorption, the remnant appears as a nearly black circular spot with an outermost angular radius of 0.40" +/- 0.025" implying r = 1.52 pc and a 120 yr average expansion velocity of 12400 +/-1400 km/s. The strongest Ca II absorption is organized in a broken ring structure with a radius of 0.20" (=6000 km/s) with several apparent absorption `clumps' of an angular size near the pixel scale of 0.05" (= 1500 km/s). The detection of Ca II clumps is the first direct evidence for some instabilities and the existence of a deflagration phase in SNe Ia or, alternatively, mixing induced by radioactive decay of 56^Ni over time scales of seconds or days. However, the degree of mixing allowed by the observed images is much smaller than current 3D calculations for Rayleigh-Taylor dominated deflagration fronts. The images also require a central region of no or little Ca but iron group elements indicative of burning under sufficiently high densities for electron capture taking place, i.e., burning prior to a significant pre-expansion of the WD.

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