The Nickel Mass Distribution of Stripped-Envelope Supernovae: Implications for Additional Power Sources

Niloufar Afsariardchi, Maria R. Drout, David Khatami +3

We perform a systematic study of the ${}^{56}$Ni mass ($M_{\mathrm{Ni}}$) of 27 stripped envelope supernovae (SESNe) by modeling their light-curve tails, highlighting that use of ``Arnett…