Explaining recently studied intermediate luminosity optical transients (ILOTs) with jet powering

Abstract

We apply the jet-powered ILOT scenario to two recently studied intermediate luminosity optical transients (ILOTs), and find the relevant shell mass and jets' energy that might account for the outbursts of these ILOTs. In the jet-powered ILOT scenario accretion disk around one of the stars of a binary system launches jets. The interaction of the jets with a previously ejected slow shell converts kinetic energy to thermal energy, part of which is radiated away. We apply two models of the jet-powered ILOT scenario. In the spherical shell model the jets accelerate a spherical shell, while in the cocoon toy model the jets penetrate into the shell and inflate hot bubbles, the cocoons. We find consistent results. For the ILOT (ILRT: intermediate luminosity red transient) SNhunt120 we find the shell mass and jets' energy to be Ms=0.5-1Mo and E2j=5e47erg, respectively. The jets' half opening angle is alpha=30-60 degrees. For the second peak of the ILOT (luminous red nova) AT2014ej we find these quantities to be Ms=1-2Mo and E2j=1.5e48erg, with alpha=20-30 degrees. The models cannot tell whether these ILOTs were powered by a stellar merger that leaves one star, or by mass transfer where both stars survived. In both cases the masses of the shells and energies of the jets suggest that the binary progenitor system was massive, with a combined mass of M1+M2>10Mo.

arXiv commentAccepted for publication in Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics

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