Proto-magnetar jets as central engines for broad-lined type Ic supernovae

Swapnil Shankar, Philipp Mösta, Jennifer Barnes +2

A subset of type Ic supernovae (SNe Ic), broad-lined SNe Ic (SNe Ic-bl), show unusually high kinetic energies ($\sim 10^{52}$ erg) which cannot be explained by the energy supplied…