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author Ravi, Aravind P.
Kumar, Sahana
Baer-Way, Raphael
Valenti, Stefano
Modjaz, Maryam
van Baal, Bart F. A.
Jerkstrand, Anders
Dong, Yize
Kwok, Lindsey A.
Pearson, Jeniveve
Sand, David J.
Hiramatsu, Daichi
Filippenko, Alexei V.
Andrews, Jennifer
Andrews, Moira
Arunachalam, Prasiddha
Bostroem, K. Azalee
Brink, Thomas G.
Christy, Collin
Chen, Liyang
Davis, Kyle W.
Esamdin, Ali
Farah, Joseph
Foley, Ryan J.
Hoang, Emily
Hosseinzadeh, Griffin
Howell, D. Andrew
Hsu, Brian
Huang, Ruifeng
Iskander, Abdusamatjan
Janzen, Daryl
Jha, Saurabh W.
Kaur, Ravjit
Lundquist, Michael J.
McCully, Curtis
Mehta, Darshana
Ni, Yuan Qi
Retamal, Nicolas Meza
Patra, Kishore C.
Ransome, Conor
Shrestha, Manisha
Smith, Nathan
Subrayan, Bhagya
Taggart, Kirsty
Wang, Xiaofeng
Wynn, Kathryn
Yang, Yi
Yan, Shengyu
Zheng, Weikang
Coe, Dan
author_facet Ravi, Aravind P.
Kumar, Sahana
Baer-Way, Raphael
Valenti, Stefano
Modjaz, Maryam
van Baal, Bart F. A.
Jerkstrand, Anders
Dong, Yize
Kwok, Lindsey A.
Pearson, Jeniveve
Sand, David J.
Hiramatsu, Daichi
Filippenko, Alexei V.
Andrews, Jennifer
Andrews, Moira
Arunachalam, Prasiddha
Bostroem, K. Azalee
Brink, Thomas G.
Christy, Collin
Chen, Liyang
Davis, Kyle W.
Esamdin, Ali
Farah, Joseph
Foley, Ryan J.
Hoang, Emily
Hosseinzadeh, Griffin
Howell, D. Andrew
Hsu, Brian
Huang, Ruifeng
Iskander, Abdusamatjan
Janzen, Daryl
Jha, Saurabh W.
Kaur, Ravjit
Lundquist, Michael J.
McCully, Curtis
Mehta, Darshana
Ni, Yuan Qi
Retamal, Nicolas Meza
Patra, Kishore C.
Ransome, Conor
Shrestha, Manisha
Smith, Nathan
Subrayan, Bhagya
Taggart, Kirsty
Wang, Xiaofeng
Wynn, Kathryn
Yang, Yi
Yan, Shengyu
Zheng, Weikang
Coe, Dan
contents Supernova (SN) 2025coe at a distance of $\sim$25 Mpc is the second-closest calcium-strong (CaST) transient. It was discovered at a large projected offset of $\sim$34 kpc from its potential host galaxy NGC 3277. Multiband photometry of SN 2025coe indicates the presence of two peaks at day $\sim$2 and day $\sim$11 after explosion. Modeling the bolometric light curve, we find that the first peak can be reproduced either by shock cooling of a compact envelope ($R_\mathrm{env}$ $\approx $6-40 $R_{\odot}$; $M_\mathrm{env}$ $\approx $0.1-0.2 $M_{\odot}$) or by interaction with close-in circumstellar material (CSM; $R_{\mathrm{CSM}} \lesssim 6 \times10^{14}$ cm), or a combination of both. The second peak is dominated by radioactive decay of $^{56}$Ni ($M_{\mathrm{ej}} \approx $0.4-0.5 $M_{\odot}$; $M_{^{56}\mathrm{Ni}} \approx 1.4 \times 10^{-2}$ $M_{\odot}$). SN 2025coe rapidly evolves from the photospheric phase dominated by He I P-Cygni profiles to nebular phase spectra dominated by strong [Ca II] $λλ$7291, 7323 and weak [O I] $λλ$6300, 6364 emission lines. Simultaneous line profile modeling of [Ca II] and [O I] at nebular phases shows that an asymmetric core-collapse explosion of a low-mass ($\lesssim$3.3 $M_{\odot}$) He-core progenitor can explain the observed line profiles. Alternatively, lack of local star formation at the site of the SN explosion combined with a low ejecta mass is also consistent with a thermonuclear explosion due to a low-mass hybrid He-C/O white dwarf + C/O white dwarf merger.
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spellingShingle The Double-Peaked Calcium-Strong SN 2025coe: Progenitor Constraints from Early Interaction and Ejecta Asymmetries
Ravi, Aravind P.
Kumar, Sahana
Baer-Way, Raphael
Valenti, Stefano
Modjaz, Maryam
van Baal, Bart F. A.
Jerkstrand, Anders
Dong, Yize
Kwok, Lindsey A.
Pearson, Jeniveve
Sand, David J.
Hiramatsu, Daichi
Filippenko, Alexei V.
Andrews, Jennifer
Andrews, Moira
Arunachalam, Prasiddha
Bostroem, K. Azalee
Brink, Thomas G.
Christy, Collin
Chen, Liyang
Davis, Kyle W.
Esamdin, Ali
Farah, Joseph
Foley, Ryan J.
Hoang, Emily
Hosseinzadeh, Griffin
Howell, D. Andrew
Hsu, Brian
Huang, Ruifeng
Iskander, Abdusamatjan
Janzen, Daryl
Jha, Saurabh W.
Kaur, Ravjit
Lundquist, Michael J.
McCully, Curtis
Mehta, Darshana
Ni, Yuan Qi
Retamal, Nicolas Meza
Patra, Kishore C.
Ransome, Conor
Shrestha, Manisha
Smith, Nathan
Subrayan, Bhagya
Taggart, Kirsty
Wang, Xiaofeng
Wynn, Kathryn
Yang, Yi
Yan, Shengyu
Zheng, Weikang
Coe, Dan
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Supernova (SN) 2025coe at a distance of $\sim$25 Mpc is the second-closest calcium-strong (CaST) transient. It was discovered at a large projected offset of $\sim$34 kpc from its potential host galaxy NGC 3277. Multiband photometry of SN 2025coe indicates the presence of two peaks at day $\sim$2 and day $\sim$11 after explosion. Modeling the bolometric light curve, we find that the first peak can be reproduced either by shock cooling of a compact envelope ($R_\mathrm{env}$ $\approx $6-40 $R_{\odot}$; $M_\mathrm{env}$ $\approx $0.1-0.2 $M_{\odot}$) or by interaction with close-in circumstellar material (CSM; $R_{\mathrm{CSM}} \lesssim 6 \times10^{14}$ cm), or a combination of both. The second peak is dominated by radioactive decay of $^{56}$Ni ($M_{\mathrm{ej}} \approx $0.4-0.5 $M_{\odot}$; $M_{^{56}\mathrm{Ni}} \approx 1.4 \times 10^{-2}$ $M_{\odot}$). SN 2025coe rapidly evolves from the photospheric phase dominated by He I P-Cygni profiles to nebular phase spectra dominated by strong [Ca II] $λλ$7291, 7323 and weak [O I] $λλ$6300, 6364 emission lines. Simultaneous line profile modeling of [Ca II] and [O I] at nebular phases shows that an asymmetric core-collapse explosion of a low-mass ($\lesssim$3.3 $M_{\odot}$) He-core progenitor can explain the observed line profiles. Alternatively, lack of local star formation at the site of the SN explosion combined with a low ejecta mass is also consistent with a thermonuclear explosion due to a low-mass hybrid He-C/O white dwarf + C/O white dwarf merger.
title The Double-Peaked Calcium-Strong SN 2025coe: Progenitor Constraints from Early Interaction and Ejecta Asymmetries
topic High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.00415