_version_ 1866914736948379648
author Li, Gaici
Hu, Maokai
Li, Wenxiong
Yang, Yi
Wang, Xiaofeng
Yan, Shengyu
Hu, Lei
Zhang, Jujia
Mao, Yiming
Riise, Henrik
Gao, Xing
Sun, Tianrui
Liu, Jialian
Xiong, Dingrong
Wang, Lifan
Mo, Jun
Iskandar, Abdusamatjan
Xi, Gaobo
Xiang, Danfeng
Wang, Lingzhi
Sun, Guoyou
Zhang, Keming
Chen, Jian
Lin, Weili
Guo, Fangzhou
Liu, Qichun
Cai, Guangyao
Zhou, Wenjie
Zhao, Jingyuan
Chen, Jin
Zheng, Xin
Li, Keying
Zhang, Mi
Xu, Shijun
Lyu, Xiaodong
Castro-Tirado, A. J.
Chufarin, Vasilii
Potapov, Nikolay
Ionov, Ivan
Korotkiy, Stanislav
Nazarov, Sergey
Sokolovsky, Kirill
Hamann, Norman
Herman, Eliot
author_facet Li, Gaici
Hu, Maokai
Li, Wenxiong
Yang, Yi
Wang, Xiaofeng
Yan, Shengyu
Hu, Lei
Zhang, Jujia
Mao, Yiming
Riise, Henrik
Gao, Xing
Sun, Tianrui
Liu, Jialian
Xiong, Dingrong
Wang, Lifan
Mo, Jun
Iskandar, Abdusamatjan
Xi, Gaobo
Xiang, Danfeng
Wang, Lingzhi
Sun, Guoyou
Zhang, Keming
Chen, Jian
Lin, Weili
Guo, Fangzhou
Liu, Qichun
Cai, Guangyao
Zhou, Wenjie
Zhao, Jingyuan
Chen, Jin
Zheng, Xin
Li, Keying
Zhang, Mi
Xu, Shijun
Lyu, Xiaodong
Castro-Tirado, A. J.
Chufarin, Vasilii
Potapov, Nikolay
Ionov, Ivan
Korotkiy, Stanislav
Nazarov, Sergey
Sokolovsky, Kirill
Hamann, Norman
Herman, Eliot
contents Shock breakout emission is light that arises when a shockwave, generated by core-collapse explosion of a massive star, passes through its outer envelope. Hitherto, the earliest detection of such a signal was at several hours after the explosion, though a few others had been reported. The temporal evolution of early light curves should reveal insights into the shock propagation, including explosion asymmetry and environment in the vicinity, but this has been hampered by the lack of multiwavelength observations. Here we report the instant multiband observations of a type II supernova (SN 2023ixf) in the galaxy M101 (at a distance of 6.85+/-0.15 Mpc), beginning at about 1.4 hours after the explosion. The exploding star was a red supergiant with a radius of about 440 solar radii. The light curves evolved rapidly, on timescales of 1-2 hours, and appeared unusually fainter and redder than predicted by models within the first few hours, which we attribute to an optically thick dust shell before it was disrupted by the shockwave. We infer that the breakout and perhaps the distribution of the surrounding dust were not spherically symmetric.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2311_14409
institution arXiv
publishDate 2023
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle A Shock Flash Breaking Out of a Dusty Red Supergiant
Li, Gaici
Hu, Maokai
Li, Wenxiong
Yang, Yi
Wang, Xiaofeng
Yan, Shengyu
Hu, Lei
Zhang, Jujia
Mao, Yiming
Riise, Henrik
Gao, Xing
Sun, Tianrui
Liu, Jialian
Xiong, Dingrong
Wang, Lifan
Mo, Jun
Iskandar, Abdusamatjan
Xi, Gaobo
Xiang, Danfeng
Wang, Lingzhi
Sun, Guoyou
Zhang, Keming
Chen, Jian
Lin, Weili
Guo, Fangzhou
Liu, Qichun
Cai, Guangyao
Zhou, Wenjie
Zhao, Jingyuan
Chen, Jin
Zheng, Xin
Li, Keying
Zhang, Mi
Xu, Shijun
Lyu, Xiaodong
Castro-Tirado, A. J.
Chufarin, Vasilii
Potapov, Nikolay
Ionov, Ivan
Korotkiy, Stanislav
Nazarov, Sergey
Sokolovsky, Kirill
Hamann, Norman
Herman, Eliot
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Shock breakout emission is light that arises when a shockwave, generated by core-collapse explosion of a massive star, passes through its outer envelope. Hitherto, the earliest detection of such a signal was at several hours after the explosion, though a few others had been reported. The temporal evolution of early light curves should reveal insights into the shock propagation, including explosion asymmetry and environment in the vicinity, but this has been hampered by the lack of multiwavelength observations. Here we report the instant multiband observations of a type II supernova (SN 2023ixf) in the galaxy M101 (at a distance of 6.85+/-0.15 Mpc), beginning at about 1.4 hours after the explosion. The exploding star was a red supergiant with a radius of about 440 solar radii. The light curves evolved rapidly, on timescales of 1-2 hours, and appeared unusually fainter and redder than predicted by models within the first few hours, which we attribute to an optically thick dust shell before it was disrupted by the shockwave. We infer that the breakout and perhaps the distribution of the surrounding dust were not spherically symmetric.
title A Shock Flash Breaking Out of a Dusty Red Supergiant
topic High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.14409