Signatures of anti-social mass-loss in the ordinary Type II SN 2024bch -- A non-interacting supernova with early high-ionisation features

Abstract

In this paper we analyse the spectro-photometric properties of the Type II supernova 2024bch, exploded in NGC 3206 at a distance of $19.9\mathrm{Mpc}$. Its early spectra are characterised by narrow high-ionisation emission lines, often interpreted as signatures of ongoing interaction between rapidly expanding ejecta and a confined dense circumstellar medium. However, we provide a model for the bolometric light curve of the transient that does not require sources of energy different than radioactive decays and H recombination. Our model can reproduce the bolometric light curve of SN 2024bch adopting an ejected mass of $M_{bulk}\simeq 5{\mathrm{M}}_{\odot }$ surrounded by an extended envelope of only $0.2{\mathrm{M}}_{\odot }$ with an outer radius $R_{env}=7.0\times 10^{13}\mathrm{cm}$. An accurate modelling focused on the radioactive part of the light curve, which accounts for incomplete $\gamma -$ray trapping, gives a ${}^{56}\mathrm{Ni}$ mass of $0.048{\mathrm{M}}_{\odot }$. We propose narrow lines to be powered by Bowen fluorescence induced by scattering of He II Ly$\alpha$ photons, resulting in the emission of high-ionisation resonance lines. Simple light travel time calculations based on the maximum phase of the narrow emission lines place the inner radius of the H-rich, un-shocked shell at a radius $\simeq 4.4\times 10^{15}\mathrm{cm}$, compatible with an absence of ejecta-CSM interaction during the first weeks of evolution. Possible signatures of interaction appear only $\sim 69\mathrm{days}$ after explosion, although the resulting conversion of kinetic energy into radiation does not seem to contribute significantly to the total luminosity of the transient.

14 pages, 14 figures, 4 tables, accepted for publication on A&A

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