Mass-transferring binary stars as progenitors of interacting hydrogen-free supernovae

Abstract

Stripped-envelope supernovae (SNe) are H-poor transients produced at the end of the life of massive stars that previously lost their H-rich envelope. Their progenitors are thought to be donor stars in mass-transferring binary systems, which were stripped of their H-rich envelopes some $10^6$yr before core collapse. A subset of the stripped-envelope SNe exhibit spectral and photometric features indicative of interaction between their ejecta and nearby circumstellar material (CSM). We examine whether mass transfer during, or shortly before, core collapse in massive binary systems can produce the CSM inferred from the observations of interacting H-poor SNe. We select 44 models from a comprehensive grid of detailed binary evolution models in which the mass donors are H-free and explode while transferring mass to a main-sequence companion. We find that in these models, mass transfer starts less than $\sim 20$kyr before, and often continues until the core collapse of the donor star. Up to $0.8M_{\odot }$ of H-free material are removed from the donor star during this phase, which may produce a He-rich circumbinary material. We explore plausible assumptions for its spatial distribution at the time of explosion. When assuming that the CSM accumulates in a circumbinary disk, we find qualitative agreement with the supernova and CSM properties inferred from observed Type Ibn SNe, and to a lesser extent with constraints from Type Icn SNe. We find that our mass transferring stripped envelope SN progenitor models may produce up to $\sim$10% of all stripped envelope supernovae. The binary channel proposed in this work can qualitatively account for the observed key properties and rate of interacting H-poor SNe. Models for the evolution of the circumbinary material and the spectral evolution of exploding progenitors from this channel are needed to further test its significance.

26 pages, 21 figures, Abstract is abridged. Submitted to Astronomy & Astrophysics and updated following comments from the referee. Comments are welcome!

References in corpus (70)

• Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA)
• Binary interaction dominates the evolution of massive stars
• The Zwicky Transient Facility: System Overview, Performance, and First Results
• Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA): Pulsating Variable Stars, Rotation, Convective Boundaries, and Energy Conservation
• The All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN) Light Curve Server v1.0
• The chemical make-up of the Sun: A 2020 vision
• A giant outburst two years before the core-collapse of a massive star
• The Galactic WN stars: Spectral analyses with line-blanketed model atmospheres versus stellar evolution models with and without rotation
• The Zwicky Transient Facility Bright Transient Survey. II. A Public Statistical Sample for Exploring Supernova Demographics
• The Evolution of Massive Helium Stars Including Mass Loss
• The Explosion of Helium Stars Evolved With Mass Loss
• Neutron star kicks by the gravitational tug-boat mechanism in asymmetric supernova explosions: progenitor and explosion dependence
• The role of mass transfer and common envelope evolution in the formation of merging binary black holes
• Type Ia Supernova Explosions in Binary Systems: A Review
• Mass Transfer from Giant Donors
• On Variations Of Pre-Supernova Model Properties
• Massive stars exploding in a He-rich circumstellar medium III. SN 2006jc: IR echoes from new and old dust in the progenitor CSM
• Simple recipes for compact remnant masses and natal kicks
• Towards a better understanding of the evolution of Wolf-Rayet stars and Type Ib/Ic supernova progenitors
• Bright, months-long stellar outbursts announce the explosion of interaction-powered supernovae
• Winds from stripped low-mass Helium stars and Wolf-Rayet stars
• A WC/WO star exploding within an expanding carbon-oxygen-neon nebula
• A Search for Extragalactic Fast Blue Optical Transients in ZTF and the Rate of AT2018cow-like Transients
• A Diversity of Wave-driven Pre-supernova Outbursts
• The Type Icn SN 2021csp: Implications for the Origins of the Fastest Supernovae and the Fates of Wolf-Rayet Stars
• Massive stars exploding in a He-rich circumstellar medium. IV. Transitional Type Ibn Supernovae
• Theoretical Models of Optical Transients. I. A Broad Exploration of the Duration-Luminosity Phase Space
• Modeling the signatures of interaction in Type II supernovae: UV emission, high-velocity features, broad-boxy profiles
• Endurance of SN 2005ip after a decade: X-rays, radio, and H-alpha like SN 1988Z require long-lived pre-supernova mass loss
• Radii and Mass-loss Rates of Type IIb Supernova Progenitors
• Coping with loss: Stability of mass transfer from post-main sequence donor stars
• Partial-envelope stripping and nuclear-timescale mass transfer from evolved supergiants at low metallicity
• Supernovae Ib and Ic from the explosion of helium stars
• SN2019dge: a Helium-rich Ultra-Stripped Envelope Supernova
• Properties of Type Ibn Supernovae: Implications for the Progenitor Evolution and the Origin of a Population of Rapid Transients
• Effects of winds on the leftover hydrogen in massive stars following Roche lobe overflow
• The Peculiar Type Ib Supernova 2006jc: A WCO Wolf-Rayet Star Explosion
• Circumstellar Interaction Powers the Light Curves of Luminous Rapidly Evolving Optical Transients
• The Diverse Properties of Type Icn Supernovae Point to Multiple Progenitor Channels
• A new prescription for the mass-loss rates of WC and WO stars
• Nebular phase properties of supernova Ibc from He-star explosions
• Extreme mass loss in low-mass type Ib/c supernova progenitors
• Model Light Curves for Type Ib and Ic Supernovae
• Massive stars exploding in a He-rich circumstellar medium. V. Observations of the slow-evolving SN Ibn OGLE-2012-SN-006
• On rapid binary mass transfer -- I. Physical model
• Supernova ejecta interacting with a circumstellar disk. I. two-dimensional radiation-hydrodynamic simulations
• Helium stars exploding in circumstellar material and the origin of Type Ibn supernovae
• Long-term Evolution of Binary Orbits Induced by Circumbinary Disks
• A synthetic population of Wolf-Rayet stars in the LMC based on detailed single and binary star evolution models
• Stripped-envelope stars in different metallicity environments. II. Type I supernovae and compact remnants
• Wave-driven outbursts and variability of low-mass supernova progenitors
• A sequence of Type Ib, IIb, II-L, and II-P supernovae from binary-star progenitors of varying initial separation
• Observability of inflated companion stars after supernovae in massive binaries
• Flash ionization signatures in the type Ibn supernova SN 2019uo
• Novel Model of an Ultra-stripped Supernova Progenitor of a Double Neutron Star
• Stripped-Envelope Stars in Different Metallicity Environments I. Evolutionary Phases, Classification and Populations
• SN 2018gjx reveals that some SNe Ibn are SNe IIb exploding in dense circumstellar material
• SN 2022ann: A type Icn supernova from a dwarf galaxy that reveals helium in its circumstellar environment
• Evolution and final fate of massive post-common-envelope binaries
• Modeling of the nebular-phase spectral evolution of stripped-envelope supernovae. New grids from 100 to 450 days
• LSQ13ddu: A rapidly-evolving stripped-envelope supernova with early circumstellar interaction signatures
• Exploring the borderline between stable mass transfer and mergers in close binary evolution
• SN 2020bqj: a Type Ibn supernova with a long lasting peak plateau
• Spectroscopic observations of progenitor activity 100 days before a Type Ibn supernova
• Boron depletion in Galactic early B-type stars reveals two different main sequence star populations
• The Type Ibn Supernova 2019kbj -- Indications for Diversity in Type Ibn Supernova Progenitors
• Constraining mass transfer and common-envelope physics with post-supernova companion monitoring
• Evolution of A Peculiar Type Ibn Supernova SN 2019wep
• Simulations of the progenitors of black hole-neutron star gravitational wave sources
• Stable Case BB/BC Mass Transfer to Form GW190425-like Massive Binary Neutron Star Mergers

Cited by in corpus (11)

• Populations of evolved massive binary stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud I: Predictions from detailed evolution models
• The Demographics of Binary Companions to Stripped-Envelope Supernovae: Confronting Observations with Population Synthesis
• Rapid binary mass transfer: Circumbinary outflows and angular momentum losses
• A comprehensive grid of massive binary evolution models for the Galaxy - Surface properties of post-mass transfer stars
• The demographics of core-collapse supernovae. The role of binary evolution and CSM interaction
• Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transients as "Failed" Gravitational-wave Sources: Helium Core$-$Black Hole Mergers Following Delayed Dynamical Instability
• Carbon from massive binary-stripped stars over cosmic time: effect of metallicity
• Hydrodynamic Modelling of Early Peaks in Type Ibc Supernovae with Circumstellar Interaction
• The hydrogen-free circumstellar interaction in the Type Ib supernova 2021efd: A clue to the mechanism of the helium-layer stripping
• Between Plateaus and Slopes: A Data-Driven Exploration of Spectral Diversity Across Type IIP/L Supernovae
• Nested, asymmetric H-He circumstellar shells in the Type Icn/Ibn SN 2024abvb