On the Progenitor of the Type II Supernova 2004et in NGC 6946

Abstract

Supernova (SN) 2004et is the eighth historical SN in the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 6946. Here we report on early photometric and spectroscopic monitoring of this object. SN 2004et is a Type II event, exhibiting a plateau in its light curves, but its spectral and color evolution appear to differ significantly from those of other, more normal Type II-plateau (II-P) SNe. We have analyzed Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) images of the host galaxy taken prior to the SN explosion, identifying a candidate progenitor for the SN. The star's absolute magnitude and intrinsic color imply that it was a yellow, rather than red, supergiant star, with an estimated zero-age main sequence mass of $15_{-2}^{+5}{M}_{\odot }$. Although this mass estimate is consistent with estimates and upper limits for the progenitors of other, more normal SNe II-P, the SN 2004et progenitor's unusual color could further imply a pre-explosion evolutionary history analogous to, but less extreme than, that for the progenitors of the peculiar Type II-P SN 1987A or the Type IIb SN 1993J. The identity of the progenitor candidate needs to be verified when the SN has significantly dimmed.

arXiv commentTo appear in PASP (Feb 2005). A high resolution PostScript version is available at http://astron.berkeley.edu/~weidong/ms_04et.ps.gz

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