8 papers
A statistical study of the environmental age of core-collapse supernovae based on VLT/MUSE integral-field-unit spectroscopy
Qiang Xi, Ning-Chen Sun, Yihan Zhao +13
We aim to understand the progenitor channels of CCSNe via a statistical study of the ages of their environments. We compiled a large and minimally biased sample of 128 CCSNe discov…
Relative frequencies of core-collapse supernovae as a function of metallicity: observations vs theoretical predictions
Claudia P. Gutiérrez, LluÃs Galbany, Joseph P. Anderson +4
Understanding supernova (SN) progenitors remains a major challenge in astrophysics, as it involves untangling the complex interplay between stellar physics (e.g., evolution, binari…
A binary merger product as the direct progenitor of a Type II-P supernova
Zexi Niu, Ning-Chen Sun, Emmanouil Zapartas +16
Type II-P supernovae (SNe II-P) are the most common class of core-collapse SNe in the local Universe and play critical roles in many aspects of astrophysics. Since decades ago theo…
HST Deep Upper Limits Rule Out a Surviving Massive Binary Companion to the Type Ic Supernova 2012fh
Benjamin F. Williams, Emmanouil Zapartas, Ori D. Fox +19
Current explanations of the mass-loss mechanism for stripped-envelope supernovae remain divided between single and binary progenitor systems. Here we obtain deep ultraviolet (UV) i…
The power of binaries on stripped-envelope supernovae across metallicity: uniform progenitor parameter space and persistently low ejecta masses, but subtype diversity
D. Souropanis, E. Zapartas, T. Pessi +9
Stripped-envelope supernovae (SESNe) originate from massive stars that lose their envelopes through binary interactions or stellar winds. The connection between SESN subtypes and t…
The Demographics of Binary Companions to Stripped-Envelope Supernovae: Confronting Observations with Population Synthesis
E. Zapartas, O. D. Fox, J. Su +15
Stripped-envelope supernovae (SESNe) mark the deaths of massive stars without hydrogen-rich envelopes. Most SESNe likely originate from binary systems where a companion stripped th…