Light Curves of Type IIP Supernovae from Neutrino-driven Explosions of Red Supergiants Obtained by a Semi-analytic Approach

Abstract

Type IIP supernovae (SNe IIP) mark the explosive death of red supergiants (RSGs), evolved massive stars with an extended hydrogen envelope. They are the most common supernova type and allow for benchmarking of supernova explosion models by statistical comparison to observed population properties rather than comparing individual models and events. We construct a large synthetic set of SNe IIP light curves (LCs) using the radiation hydrodynamics code \texttt{SNEC} and explosion energies and nickel masses obtained from an efficient semi-analytic model for two different sets of stellar progenitor models. By direct comparison we demonstrate that the semi-analytic model yields very similar predictions as alternative phenomenological explosion models based on one-dimensional simulations. We find systematic differences of a factor of $\sim 2$ in plateau luminosities between the two progenitor sets due to different stellar radii, which highlights the importance of the RSG envelope structure as a major uncertainty in interpreting LCs of SNe IIP. A comparison to a volume-limited sample of observed SNe IIP shows decent agreement in plateau luminosity, plateau duration and nickel mass for at least one of the synthetic LC sets. The models, however, do not produce sufficient events with very small nickel mass $M_{\mathrm{Ni}}<0.01M_{\odot }$ and predict an anticorrelation between plateau luminosity and plateau duration that is not present in the observed sample, a result that warrants further study. Our results suggest that a better understanding of RSG stellar structure is no less important for reliably explaining the light curves of SNe IIP than the explosion physics.

arXiv comment21 pages, 10 figures, 3 tables, accepted by ApJ, light curve parameter available at Zenodo:10.5281/zenodo.7354733

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