SN 1998bw/GRB 980425: Hypernova or Aspherical Explosion?

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1998-07-31

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9807345v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, 2 figures, submitted to ApJ Letters

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The recent discovery of the unusual supernova SN1998bw and its apparent correlation with the gamma-ray burst GRB 980425 has raised new issues concerning both the GRB and SNe. SN1998bw was unusually bright at maximum light and expansion velocities were large making SN1998bw a possible candidate for a "hypernova" with explosion energies exceeding 10^{52} erg. We show that the light curve of SN1998bw can be understood as the result of an aspherical explosion along the rotational axis of a basically spherical, non-degenerate C/O core of a massive star with an explosion energy of 2E51 erg, a total ejecta mass of 2 M_o, and a 56Ni mass of 0.2M_o if it is seen from high inclinations with respect to the plane of symmetry.In this model, the high expansion velocities are a direct consequence of the aspherical explosion which, in turn, produces oblate iso-density contours. This suggests that the fundamental core-collapse explosion process itself is strongly asymmetric.

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