Exclusion of a direct progenitor detection for the Type Ic SN 2017ein based on late-time observations

Yi-Han Zhao, Ning-Chen Sun, Junjie Wu +7

To date, SN 2017ein is the only Type Ic supernova with a directly identified progenitor candidate. This candidate points to a very massive ($>$45 $M_{\odot }$) Wolf-Rayet progenitor,…