On the Spectrum and Nature of the Peculiar Type Ia Supernova 1991T

Details On the Spectrum and Nature of the Peculiar Type Ia Supernova 1991T On the Spectrum and Nature of the Peculiar Type Ia Supernova 1991T

1998-07-02

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9807032v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

1 text, 7 figures, submitted to MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.1999.02299.x

A parameterized supernova synthetic-spectrum code is used to study line identifications in the photospheric-phase spectra of the peculiar Type Ia SN 1991T, and to extract some constraints on the composition structure of the ejected matter. The inferred composition structure is not like that of any hydrodynamical model for Type Ia supernovae. Evidence that SN 1991T was overluminous for an SN Ia is presented, and it is suggested that this peculiar event probably was a substantially super-Chandrasekhar explosion that resulted from the merger of two white dwarfs.

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