The dust mass in Cassiopeia A from infrared and optical line flux differences

Abstract

The large quantities of dust that have been found in a number of high redshift galaxies have led to suggestions that core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) are the main sources of their dust and have motivated the measurement of the dust masses formed by local CCSNe. For Cassiopeia~A, an oxygen-rich remnant of a Type~IIb CCSN, a dust mass of 0.6-1.1~M${}_{\odot }$ has already been determined by two different methods, namely (a) from its far-infrared spectral energy distribution and (b) from analysis of the red-blue emission line asymmetries in its integrated optical spectrum. We present a third, independent, method for determining the mass of dust contained within Cas~A. This compares the relative fluxes measured in similar apertures from [O~{\sc iii}] far-infrared and visual-region emission lines, taking into account foreground dust extinction, in order to determine internal dust optical depths, from which corresponding dust masses can be obtained. Using this method we determine a dust mass within Cas~A of at least 0.99${}_{-0.09}^{+0.10}$~M${}_{\odot }$.

arXiv commentAccepted by MNRAS, 17 pages, 12 figures. Author accepted manuscript. Accepted on 21/03/2021. Deposited on 22/03/2021

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