The Evolution of SN1987A Debris: 12 Year Light Curves in UBVRIJHK

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May 1999

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999aas...194.8612s&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, 194th AAS Meeting, #86.12; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 31, p.977

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HST observations show that the nitrogen-rich circumstellar material surrounding SN1987A is a significant source of contamination in ground-based photometry for the SN debris. We analyze six epochs of WFPC2 PC images (1994.8-1999.0) in broad-band filters F336W, F439W, F555W, F675W, and F814W (HST UBVRI) and four epochs in narrow-band filters F656N, F658N, and F502N. Our corrected light curves demonstrate that flux from the circumstellar ring dominates flux from the debris in the ground-based data set after day 1195 (JD=2448047). On day 3268, the magnitudes for the SN debris were (UBVRI)=(19.75, 19.85, 19.97, 18.91, 19.30). The magnitudes for the ring (including the faint star superimposed on the ring) were (UBVRI)=(18.29, 19.21, 18.36, 16.44, 18.41). We have fit the slow change in the ring magnitudes over the last five years to provide an extrapolation back to the epochs of ground-based observations. These extrapolations are used to remove the ring flux from the ground-based photometric measurements which yields a uniform set of UBVRIJHK light curves for the debris of SN1987A over its past 12 year evolution.

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