Dinosaur in a Haystack : X-ray View of the Entrails of SN 2023ixf and the Radio Afterglow of Its Interaction with the Medium Spawned by the Progenitor Star (Paper 1)

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Autori principali: Nayana, A. J., Margutti, Raffaella, Wiston, Eli, Chornock, Ryan, Campana, Sergio, Laskar, Tanmoy, Murase, Kohta, Krips, Melanie, Migliori, Giulia, Tsuna, Daichi, Alexander, Kate D., Chandra, Poonam, Bietenholz, Michael, Berger, Edo, Chevalier, Roger A., De Colle, Fabio, Dessart, Luc, Diesing, Rebecca, Grefenstette, Brian W., Jacobson-Galan, Wynn V., Maeda, Keiichi, Marcote, Benito, Matthews, David, Milisavljevic, Dan, Ray, Alak K., Reguitti, Andrea, Polzin, Ava
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author Nayana, A. J.
Margutti, Raffaella
Wiston, Eli
Chornock, Ryan
Campana, Sergio
Laskar, Tanmoy
Murase, Kohta
Krips, Melanie
Migliori, Giulia
Tsuna, Daichi
Alexander, Kate D.
Chandra, Poonam
Bietenholz, Michael
Berger, Edo
Chevalier, Roger A.
De Colle, Fabio
Dessart, Luc
Diesing, Rebecca
Grefenstette, Brian W.
Jacobson-Galan, Wynn V.
Maeda, Keiichi
Marcote, Benito
Matthews, David
Milisavljevic, Dan
Ray, Alak K.
Reguitti, Andrea
Polzin, Ava
author_facet Nayana, A. J.
Margutti, Raffaella
Wiston, Eli
Chornock, Ryan
Campana, Sergio
Laskar, Tanmoy
Murase, Kohta
Krips, Melanie
Migliori, Giulia
Tsuna, Daichi
Alexander, Kate D.
Chandra, Poonam
Bietenholz, Michael
Berger, Edo
Chevalier, Roger A.
De Colle, Fabio
Dessart, Luc
Diesing, Rebecca
Grefenstette, Brian W.
Jacobson-Galan, Wynn V.
Maeda, Keiichi
Marcote, Benito
Matthews, David
Milisavljevic, Dan
Ray, Alak K.
Reguitti, Andrea
Polzin, Ava
contents We present the results from our extensive hard-to-soft X-ray (NuSTAR, Swift-XRT, XMM-Newton, Chandra) and meter-to-mm wave radio (GMRT, VLA, NOEMA) monitoring campaign of the very nearby (d $=6.9$ Mpc) Type II SN2023ixf spanning $\approx$ 4--165 d post-explosion. This unprecedented dataset enables inferences on the explosion's circumstellar medium (CSM) density and geometry. Specifically, we find that the luminous X-ray emission is well modeled by thermal free-free radiation from the forward shock with rapidly decreasing photo-electric absorption with time. The radio spectrum is dominated by synchrotron radiation from the same shock, and the NOEMA detection of high-frequency radio emission may indicate a new component consistent with the secondary origin. Similar to the X-rays, the level of free-free absorption affecting the radio spectrum rapidly decreases with time as a consequence of the shock propagation into the dense CSM. While the X-ray and the radio modeling independently support the presence of a dense medium corresponding to an \emph{effective} mass-loss rate $\dot{M} \approx 10^{-4}\, \rm M_{\odot}\,yr^{-1}$ at $R = (0.4-14) \times 10^{15}$ (for $v_{\rm w}=\rm 25 \,km\,s^{-1}$), our study points at a complex CSM density structure with asymmetries and clumps. The inferred densities are $\approx$10--100 times those of typical red supergiants, indicating an extreme mass-loss phase of the progenitor in the $\approx$200 years preceding core collapse, which leads to the most X-ray luminous Type II SN and the one with the most delayed emergence of radio emission. These results add to the picture of the complex mass-loss history of massive stars on the verge of collapse and demonstrate the need for panchromatic campaigns to fully map their intricate environments.
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spellingShingle Dinosaur in a Haystack : X-ray View of the Entrails of SN 2023ixf and the Radio Afterglow of Its Interaction with the Medium Spawned by the Progenitor Star (Paper 1)
Nayana, A. J.
Margutti, Raffaella
Wiston, Eli
Chornock, Ryan
Campana, Sergio
Laskar, Tanmoy
Murase, Kohta
Krips, Melanie
Migliori, Giulia
Tsuna, Daichi
Alexander, Kate D.
Chandra, Poonam
Bietenholz, Michael
Berger, Edo
Chevalier, Roger A.
De Colle, Fabio
Dessart, Luc
Diesing, Rebecca
Grefenstette, Brian W.
Jacobson-Galan, Wynn V.
Maeda, Keiichi
Marcote, Benito
Matthews, David
Milisavljevic, Dan
Ray, Alak K.
Reguitti, Andrea
Polzin, Ava
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
We present the results from our extensive hard-to-soft X-ray (NuSTAR, Swift-XRT, XMM-Newton, Chandra) and meter-to-mm wave radio (GMRT, VLA, NOEMA) monitoring campaign of the very nearby (d $=6.9$ Mpc) Type II SN2023ixf spanning $\approx$ 4--165 d post-explosion. This unprecedented dataset enables inferences on the explosion's circumstellar medium (CSM) density and geometry. Specifically, we find that the luminous X-ray emission is well modeled by thermal free-free radiation from the forward shock with rapidly decreasing photo-electric absorption with time. The radio spectrum is dominated by synchrotron radiation from the same shock, and the NOEMA detection of high-frequency radio emission may indicate a new component consistent with the secondary origin. Similar to the X-rays, the level of free-free absorption affecting the radio spectrum rapidly decreases with time as a consequence of the shock propagation into the dense CSM. While the X-ray and the radio modeling independently support the presence of a dense medium corresponding to an \emph{effective} mass-loss rate $\dot{M} \approx 10^{-4}\, \rm M_{\odot}\,yr^{-1}$ at $R = (0.4-14) \times 10^{15}$ (for $v_{\rm w}=\rm 25 \,km\,s^{-1}$), our study points at a complex CSM density structure with asymmetries and clumps. The inferred densities are $\approx$10--100 times those of typical red supergiants, indicating an extreme mass-loss phase of the progenitor in the $\approx$200 years preceding core collapse, which leads to the most X-ray luminous Type II SN and the one with the most delayed emergence of radio emission. These results add to the picture of the complex mass-loss history of massive stars on the verge of collapse and demonstrate the need for panchromatic campaigns to fully map their intricate environments.
title Dinosaur in a Haystack : X-ray View of the Entrails of SN 2023ixf and the Radio Afterglow of Its Interaction with the Medium Spawned by the Progenitor Star (Paper 1)
topic High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.02647