Ground-based and JWST Observations of SN 2022pul: II. Evidence from Nebular Spectroscopy for a Violent Merger in a Peculiar Type-Ia Supernova

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Main Authors: Kwok, Lindsey A., Siebert, Matthew R., Johansson, Joel, Jha, Saurabh W., Blondin, Stephane, Dessart, Luc, Foley, Ryan J., Hillier, D. John, Larison, Conor, Pakmor, Ruediger, Temim, Tea, Andrews, Jennifer E., Auchettl, Katie, Badenes, Carles, Barna, Barnabas, Bostroem, K. Azalee, Newman, Max J. Brenner, Brink, Thomas G., Bustamante-Rosell, Maria Jose, Camacho-Neves, Yssavo, Clocchiatti, Alejandro, Coulter, David A., Davis, Kyle W., Deckers, Maxime, Dimitriadis, Georgios, Dong, Yize, Farah, Joseph, Filippenko, Alexei V., Flors, Andreas, Fox, Ori D., Garnavich, Peter, Gonzalez, Estefania Padilla, Graur, Or, Hambsch, Franz-Josef, Hosseinzadeh, Griffin, Howell, D. Andrew, Hughes, John P., Kerzendorf, Wolfgang E., Saux, Xavier K. Le, Maeda, Keiichi, Maguire, Kate, McCully, Curtis, Mihalenko, Cassidy, Newsome, Megan, O'Brien, John T., Pearson, Jeniveve, Pellegrino, Craig, Pierel, Justin D. R., Polin, Abigail, Rest, Armin, Rojas-Bravo, Cesar, Sand, David J., Schwab, Michaela, Shahbandeh, Melissa, Shrestha, Manisha, Smith, Nathan, Strolger, Louis-Gregory, Szalai, Tamas, Taggart, Kirsty, Terreran, Giacomo, Terwel, Jacco H., Tinyanont, Samaporn, Valenti, Stefano, Vinko, Jozsef, Wheeler, J. Craig, Yang, Yi, Zheng, WeiKang, Ashall, Chris, DerKacy, James M., Galbany, Lluis, Hoeflich, Peter, de Jaeger, Thomas, Lu, Jing, Maund, Justyn, Medler, Kyle, Morrell, Nidia, Shappee, Benjamin J., Stritzinger, Maximilian, Suntzeff, Nicholas, Tucker, Michael, Wang, Lifan
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author Kwok, Lindsey A.
Siebert, Matthew R.
Johansson, Joel
Jha, Saurabh W.
Blondin, Stephane
Dessart, Luc
Foley, Ryan J.
Hillier, D. John
Larison, Conor
Pakmor, Ruediger
Temim, Tea
Andrews, Jennifer E.
Auchettl, Katie
Badenes, Carles
Barna, Barnabas
Bostroem, K. Azalee
Newman, Max J. Brenner
Brink, Thomas G.
Bustamante-Rosell, Maria Jose
Camacho-Neves, Yssavo
Clocchiatti, Alejandro
Coulter, David A.
Davis, Kyle W.
Deckers, Maxime
Dimitriadis, Georgios
Dong, Yize
Farah, Joseph
Filippenko, Alexei V.
Flors, Andreas
Fox, Ori D.
Garnavich, Peter
Gonzalez, Estefania Padilla
Graur, Or
Hambsch, Franz-Josef
Hosseinzadeh, Griffin
Howell, D. Andrew
Hughes, John P.
Kerzendorf, Wolfgang E.
Saux, Xavier K. Le
Maeda, Keiichi
Maguire, Kate
McCully, Curtis
Mihalenko, Cassidy
Newsome, Megan
O'Brien, John T.
Pearson, Jeniveve
Pellegrino, Craig
Pierel, Justin D. R.
Polin, Abigail
Rest, Armin
Rojas-Bravo, Cesar
Sand, David J.
Schwab, Michaela
Shahbandeh, Melissa
Shrestha, Manisha
Smith, Nathan
Strolger, Louis-Gregory
Szalai, Tamas
Taggart, Kirsty
Terreran, Giacomo
Terwel, Jacco H.
Tinyanont, Samaporn
Valenti, Stefano
Vinko, Jozsef
Wheeler, J. Craig
Yang, Yi
Zheng, WeiKang
Ashall, Chris
DerKacy, James M.
Galbany, Lluis
Hoeflich, Peter
de Jaeger, Thomas
Lu, Jing
Maund, Justyn
Medler, Kyle
Morrell, Nidia
Shappee, Benjamin J.
Stritzinger, Maximilian
Suntzeff, Nicholas
Tucker, Michael
Wang, Lifan
author_facet Kwok, Lindsey A.
Siebert, Matthew R.
Johansson, Joel
Jha, Saurabh W.
Blondin, Stephane
Dessart, Luc
Foley, Ryan J.
Hillier, D. John
Larison, Conor
Pakmor, Ruediger
Temim, Tea
Andrews, Jennifer E.
Auchettl, Katie
Badenes, Carles
Barna, Barnabas
Bostroem, K. Azalee
Newman, Max J. Brenner
Brink, Thomas G.
Bustamante-Rosell, Maria Jose
Camacho-Neves, Yssavo
Clocchiatti, Alejandro
Coulter, David A.
Davis, Kyle W.
Deckers, Maxime
Dimitriadis, Georgios
Dong, Yize
Farah, Joseph
Filippenko, Alexei V.
Flors, Andreas
Fox, Ori D.
Garnavich, Peter
Gonzalez, Estefania Padilla
Graur, Or
Hambsch, Franz-Josef
Hosseinzadeh, Griffin
Howell, D. Andrew
Hughes, John P.
Kerzendorf, Wolfgang E.
Saux, Xavier K. Le
Maeda, Keiichi
Maguire, Kate
McCully, Curtis
Mihalenko, Cassidy
Newsome, Megan
O'Brien, John T.
Pearson, Jeniveve
Pellegrino, Craig
Pierel, Justin D. R.
Polin, Abigail
Rest, Armin
Rojas-Bravo, Cesar
Sand, David J.
Schwab, Michaela
Shahbandeh, Melissa
Shrestha, Manisha
Smith, Nathan
Strolger, Louis-Gregory
Szalai, Tamas
Taggart, Kirsty
Terreran, Giacomo
Terwel, Jacco H.
Tinyanont, Samaporn
Valenti, Stefano
Vinko, Jozsef
Wheeler, J. Craig
Yang, Yi
Zheng, WeiKang
Ashall, Chris
DerKacy, James M.
Galbany, Lluis
Hoeflich, Peter
de Jaeger, Thomas
Lu, Jing
Maund, Justyn
Medler, Kyle
Morrell, Nidia
Shappee, Benjamin J.
Stritzinger, Maximilian
Suntzeff, Nicholas
Tucker, Michael
Wang, Lifan
contents We present an analysis of ground-based and JWST observations of SN~2022pul, a peculiar "03fg-like" (or "super-Chandrasekhar") Type Ia supernova (SN Ia), in the nebular phase at 338d post explosion. Our combined spectrum continuously covers 0.4--14 $μ$m and includes the first mid-infrared spectrum of an 03fg-like SN Ia. Compared to normal SN Ia 2021aefx, SN 2022pul exhibits a lower mean ionization state, asymmetric emission-line profiles, stronger emission from the intermediate-mass elements (IMEs) argon and calcium, weaker emission from iron-group elements (IGEs), and the first unambiguous detection of neon in a SN Ia. Strong, broad, centrally peaked [Ne II] line at 12.81 $μ$m was previously predicted as a hallmark of "violent merger'' SN Ia models, where dynamical interaction between two sub-$M_{ch}$ white dwarfs (WDs) causes disruption of the lower mass WD and detonation of the other. The violent merger scenario was already a leading hypothesis for 03fg-like SNe Ia; in SN 2022pul it can explain the large-scale ejecta asymmetries seen between the IMEs and IGEs and the central location of narrow oxygen and broad neon. We modify extant models to add clumping of the ejecta to better reproduce the optical iron emission, and add mass in the innermost region ($< 2000$ km s$^{-1}$) to account for the observed narrow [O I]~$λ\lambda6300$, 6364 emission. A violent WD-WD merger explains many of the observations of SN 2022pul, and our results favor this model interpretation for the subclass of 03fg-like SN Ia.
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spellingShingle Ground-based and JWST Observations of SN 2022pul: II. Evidence from Nebular Spectroscopy for a Violent Merger in a Peculiar Type-Ia Supernova
Kwok, Lindsey A.
Siebert, Matthew R.
Johansson, Joel
Jha, Saurabh W.
Blondin, Stephane
Dessart, Luc
Foley, Ryan J.
Hillier, D. John
Larison, Conor
Pakmor, Ruediger
Temim, Tea
Andrews, Jennifer E.
Auchettl, Katie
Badenes, Carles
Barna, Barnabas
Bostroem, K. Azalee
Newman, Max J. Brenner
Brink, Thomas G.
Bustamante-Rosell, Maria Jose
Camacho-Neves, Yssavo
Clocchiatti, Alejandro
Coulter, David A.
Davis, Kyle W.
Deckers, Maxime
Dimitriadis, Georgios
Dong, Yize
Farah, Joseph
Filippenko, Alexei V.
Flors, Andreas
Fox, Ori D.
Garnavich, Peter
Gonzalez, Estefania Padilla
Graur, Or
Hambsch, Franz-Josef
Hosseinzadeh, Griffin
Howell, D. Andrew
Hughes, John P.
Kerzendorf, Wolfgang E.
Saux, Xavier K. Le
Maeda, Keiichi
Maguire, Kate
McCully, Curtis
Mihalenko, Cassidy
Newsome, Megan
O'Brien, John T.
Pearson, Jeniveve
Pellegrino, Craig
Pierel, Justin D. R.
Polin, Abigail
Rest, Armin
Rojas-Bravo, Cesar
Sand, David J.
Schwab, Michaela
Shahbandeh, Melissa
Shrestha, Manisha
Smith, Nathan
Strolger, Louis-Gregory
Szalai, Tamas
Taggart, Kirsty
Terreran, Giacomo
Terwel, Jacco H.
Tinyanont, Samaporn
Valenti, Stefano
Vinko, Jozsef
Wheeler, J. Craig
Yang, Yi
Zheng, WeiKang
Ashall, Chris
DerKacy, James M.
Galbany, Lluis
Hoeflich, Peter
de Jaeger, Thomas
Lu, Jing
Maund, Justyn
Medler, Kyle
Morrell, Nidia
Shappee, Benjamin J.
Stritzinger, Maximilian
Suntzeff, Nicholas
Tucker, Michael
Wang, Lifan
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
We present an analysis of ground-based and JWST observations of SN~2022pul, a peculiar "03fg-like" (or "super-Chandrasekhar") Type Ia supernova (SN Ia), in the nebular phase at 338d post explosion. Our combined spectrum continuously covers 0.4--14 $μ$m and includes the first mid-infrared spectrum of an 03fg-like SN Ia. Compared to normal SN Ia 2021aefx, SN 2022pul exhibits a lower mean ionization state, asymmetric emission-line profiles, stronger emission from the intermediate-mass elements (IMEs) argon and calcium, weaker emission from iron-group elements (IGEs), and the first unambiguous detection of neon in a SN Ia. Strong, broad, centrally peaked [Ne II] line at 12.81 $μ$m was previously predicted as a hallmark of "violent merger'' SN Ia models, where dynamical interaction between two sub-$M_{ch}$ white dwarfs (WDs) causes disruption of the lower mass WD and detonation of the other. The violent merger scenario was already a leading hypothesis for 03fg-like SNe Ia; in SN 2022pul it can explain the large-scale ejecta asymmetries seen between the IMEs and IGEs and the central location of narrow oxygen and broad neon. We modify extant models to add clumping of the ejecta to better reproduce the optical iron emission, and add mass in the innermost region ($< 2000$ km s$^{-1}$) to account for the observed narrow [O I]~$λ\lambda6300$, 6364 emission. A violent WD-WD merger explains many of the observations of SN 2022pul, and our results favor this model interpretation for the subclass of 03fg-like SN Ia.
title Ground-based and JWST Observations of SN 2022pul: II. Evidence from Nebular Spectroscopy for a Violent Merger in a Peculiar Type-Ia Supernova
topic High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.12450