iPTF 16asu Revisited: A Rapidly Evolving Superluminous Broad-Lined Ic Supernova?

Abstract

In this paper, we fit the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of iPTF 16asu that has so far been classified as a luminous rapidly evolving broad-lined Ic supernova (SN Ic-BL), and re-construct its post-peak bolometric light curve. We find that the luminosity of the post-peak bolometric light curve of iPTF 16asu is about 3 times that of the pseudo-bolometric light curve derived in the literature, and the extrapolated peak luminosity exceeds $\sim 10^{44}$ erg s${}^{-1}$, which is higher than the threshold of superluminous SNe (SLSNe). We then use the ${}^{56}$Ni model and the magnetar plus ${}^{56}$Ni model to fit the multi-band light curves of iPTF 16asu, and construct the theoretical bolometric light curve using the best-fitting theoretical multi-band light curves. We find that the magnetar plus ${}^{56}$Ni model can account for the photometry of iPTF~16asu, and the peak luminosity of its theoretical bolometric light curve is $\sim 1.06\times 10^{44}$ erg s${}^{-1}$. We suggest that iPTF~16asu and similar SNe (e.g., SN 2018gep) constitute the class of rapidly evolving SLSNe Ic-BL.

arXiv comment13 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables, Accepted for publication in ApJ

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