A spectroscopically normal type Ic supernova from a very massive progenitor

Abstract

We present observations of the Type Ic supernova (SN Ic) 2011bm spanning a period of about one year. The data establish that SN 2011bm is a spectroscopically normal SN Ic with moderately low ejecta velocities and with a very slow spectroscopic and photometric evolution (more than twice as slow as SN 1998bw). The Pan-STARRS1 retrospective detection shows that the rise time from explosion to peak was 40 days in the R band. Through an analysis of the light curve and the spectral sequence, we estimate a kinetic energy of 7-17 foe and a total ejected mass of 7-17 Mo, 5-10 Mo of which is oxygen and 0.6-0.7 Mo is 56Ni. The physical parameters obtained for SN 2011bm suggest that its progenitor was a massive star of initial mass 30-50 Mo. The profile of the forbidden oxygen lines in the nebular spectra show no evidence of a bi-polar geometry in the ejected material.

3 Figures - 2 Tables - Accepted for publication in ApJL

References in corpus (31)

• The Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
• Supernova Light Curves Powered by Young Magnetars
• Nucleosynthesis Yields of Core-Collapse Supernovae and Hypernovae, and Galactic Chemical Evolution
• Metallicities of 0.3<z<1.0 Galaxies in the GOODS-North Field
• SN 2006gy: Discovery of the most luminous supernova ever recorded, powered by the death of an extremely massive star like Eta Carinae
• Hydrogen-poor superluminous stellar explosions
• Bright Supernovae from Magnetar Birth
• Supernova 2007bi as a pair-instability explosion
• A faint type of supernova from a white dwarf with a helium-rich companion
• The metamorphosis of Supernova SN2008D/XRF080109: a link between Supernovae and GRBs/Hypernovae
• The Broad-lined Type Ic SN 2003jd
• Ultra-bright optical transients are linked with type Ic supernovae
• SN 2008ha: An Extremely Low Luminosity and Extremely Low Energy Supernova
• A low energy core-collapse supernova without a hydrogen envelope
• Nebular emission-line profiles of Type Ib/c Supernovae - probing the ejecta asphericity
• Extensive optical and near-infrared observations of the nearby, narrow-lined type Ic SN 2007gr: days 5 to 415
• SN 2009jf: a slow-evolving stripped-envelope core-collapse supernova
• Two Type Ic supernovae in low-metallicity, dwarf galaxies: diversity of explosions
• The He-rich core-collapse supernova 2007Y: Observations from X-ray to Radio Wavelengths
• Yields of rotating stars at solar metallicity
• EC-SNe from super-AGB progenitors: theoretical models vs. observations
• A Core-Collapse Supernova Model for the Extremely Luminous Type Ic Supernova 2007bi: An Alternative to the Pair-Instability Supernova Model
• The He-rich Stripped-Envelope Core-Collapse Supernova 2008ax
• SN Ib 1990I: Clumping and Dust in the Ejecta?
• A massive star origin for an unusual helium-rich supernova in an elliptical galaxy
• Type Ib Supernova 2008D associated with the Luminous X-ray Transient 080109: An Energetic Explosion of a Massive Helium Star
• The Aspherical Properties of the Energetic Type Ic SN 2002ap as Inferred from its Nebular Spectra
• The Type Ic SN 2007gr: a census of the ejecta from late-time optical-infrared spectra
• SN 2006gy: was it really extra-ordinary?
• Optical studies of SN 2009jf: A type Ib supernova with an extremely slow decline and aspherical signature
• Correcting second-order contamination in low-resolution spectra

Cited by in corpus (66)

• Rapidly-Evolving and Luminous Transients from Pan-STARRS1
• Cosmological Constraints from Measurements of Type Ia Supernovae discovered during the first 1.5 years of the Pan-STARRS1 Survey
• Bolometric light curves and explosion parameters of 38 stripped-envelope core-collapse supernovae
• Slowly fading super-luminous supernovae that are not pair-instability explosions
• An embedded X-ray source shines through the aspherical AT2018cow: revealing the inner workings of the most luminous fast-evolving optical transients
• The Spectral SN-GRB Connection: Systematic Spectral Comparisons between Type Ic Supernovae, and broad-lined Type Ic Supernovae with and without Gamma-Ray Bursts
• On the diversity of super-luminous supernovae: ejected mass as the dominant factor
• The Carnegie Supernova Project I: analysis of stripped-envelope supernova light curves
• Early-time light curves of Type Ib/c supernovae from the SDSS-II Supernova Survey
• A new method for estimating the bolometric properties of Ibc SNe
• The bolometric light curves and physical parameters of stripped-envelope supernovae
• Observational and Physical Classification of Supernovae
• SN 2015bn: a detailed multi-wavelength view of a nearby superluminous supernova
• Light curves of hydrogen-poor Superluminous Supernovae from the Palomar Transient Factory
• Investigating the properties of stripped-envelope supernovae, what are the implications for their progenitors?
• Analysis of Late--time Light Curves of Type IIb, Ib and Ic Supernovae
• Bolometric Corrections for optical light curves of Core-collapse Supernovae
• A meta analysis of core-collapse supernova ${}^{56}$Ni masses
• The rise and fall of the Type Ib supernova iPTF13bvn - Not a massive Wolf-Rayet star
• Theoretical Models of Optical Transients. I. A Broad Exploration of the Duration-Luminosity Phase Space
• Search for Axionlike-Particle-Induced Prompt Gamma-Ray Emission from Extragalactic Core-Collapse Supernovae with the Fermi Large Area Telescope
• PESSTO monitoring of SN 2012hn: further heterogeneity among faint type I supernovae
• Nebular spectra of pair-instability supernovae
• Nebular-phase spectra of superluminous supernovae: physical insights from observational and statistical properties
• Spectrophotometric templates for core collapse supernovae and their application in simulations of time-domain surveys
• PS1-12sk is a Peculiar Supernova From a He-rich Progenitor System in a Brightest Cluster Galaxy Environment
• Properties of Type Ibn Supernovae: Implications for the Progenitor Evolution and the Origin of a Population of Rapid Transients
• A physically motivated classification of stripped-envelope supernovae
• iPTF15dtg: a double-peaked Type Ic Supernova from a massive progenitor
• The Nickel Mass Distribution of Stripped-Envelope Supernovae: Implications for Additional Power Sources
• Host Galaxies of Type Ic and Broad-lined Type Ic Supernovae from the Palomar Transient Factory: Implication for Jet Production
• Bolometric and UV Light Curves of Core-Collapse Supernovae
• Gaia16apd -- a link between fast-and slowly-declining type I superluminous supernovae
• A nearby superluminous supernova with a long pre-maximum 'plateau' and strong CII features
• The Young Supernova Experiment Data Release 1 (YSE DR1): Light Curves and Photometric Classification of 1975 Supernovae
• Statistical properties of the nebular spectra of 103 stripped envelope core collapse supernovae
• SN 2010ay is a Luminous and Broad-lined Type Ic Supernova within a Low-metallicity Host Galaxy
• A Potential Progenitor for the Type Ic Supernova 2017ein
• Multicolour modelling of SN 2013dx associated with GRB 130702A
• PTF11mnb: the first analog of supernova 2005bf
• SN 2016coi (ASASSN-16fp): an energetic H-stripped core-collapse supernova from a massive stellar progenitor with large mass loss
• Defining Photometric Peculiar Type Ia Supernovae
• OGLE-2014-SN-131: A long-rising Type Ibn supernova from a massive progenitor
• A Hydrogen-Poor Superluminous Supernova with Enhanced Iron-Group Absorption: A New Link Between SLSNe and Broad-Lined Type Ic SNe
• Evidence for magnetar formation in broad-lined type Ic supernovae 1998bw and 2002ap
• SN 2005at - A neglected type Ic supernova at 10 Mpc
• An aspherical distribution for the explosive burning ash of core-collapse supernovae
• Explodability criteria for the neutrino-driven supernova mechanism
• ASASSN-15nx: A luminous Type II supernova with a "perfect" linear decline
• Type Ib SN 1999dn as an example of the thoroughly mixed ejecta of Ib supernovae
• The luminous late-time emission of the type Ic supernova iPTF15dtg - evidence for powering from a magnetar?
• ASASSN-16fp (SN 2016coi): A transitional supernova between Type Ic and broad-lined Ic
• Oxygen and calcium nebular emission line relationships in core-collapse supernovae and Ca-rich transients
• A population of Type Ibc supernovae with massive progenitors; broad lightcurves not uncommon in (i)PTF
• ASASSN-18am/SN 2018gk : An overluminous Type IIb supernova from a massive progenitor
• Neutron stars formation and Core Collapse Supernovae
• Are stripped envelope supernovae really deficient in ${}^{56}$Ni?
• Observations and Spectral Modelling of the Narrow-Lined Type Ic SN 2017ein
• Transitional events in the spectrophotometric regime between stripped envelope and superluminous supernovae
• PTF11rka: an interacting supernova at the crossroads of stripped-envelope and H-poor super-luminous stellar core collapses
• Optical color of Type Ib and Ic supernovae and implications for their progenitors
• Near-Infrared and Optical Observations of Type Ic SN 2021krf: Luminous Late-time Emission and Dust Formation
• The carbon-rich type Ic supernova 2016adj in the iconic dust lane of Centaurus A: signatures of interaction with circumstellar hydrogen?
• SN 2019odp: A Massive Oxygen-Rich Type Ib Supernova
• Characterization of Supernovae Based on the Spectral-Temporal Energy Distribution: Possible two SN Ib Subtypes
• Building spectral templates and reconstructing parameters for core collapse supernovae with CASTOR