Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-10-08
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 338 (2003) 711
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
7 pages, 3 figures. MNRAS, in press
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06082.x
A number of supernovae, classified as Type II, show remarkably peculiar properties such as an extremely low expansion velocity and an extraordinarily small amount of $^{56}$Ni in the ejecta. We present a joint analysis of the available observations for two of these peculiar Type II supernovae, SN 1997D and SN 1999br, using a comprehensive semi-analytic method that can reproduce the light curve and the evolution of the line velocity and continuum temperature. We find that these events are under-energetic with respect to a typical Type II supernova and that the inferred mass of the ejecta is relatively large. We discuss the possibility that these supernovae originate from the explosion of a massive progenitor in which the rate of early infall of stellar material on the collapsed core is large. Events of this type could form a black hole remnant, giving rise to significant fallback and late-time accretion.
Altavilla Giuseppe
Benetti Stefano
Cappellaro Enrico
Hamuy Mario
Mazzali Paolo
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