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OGLE-2014-SN-131: A long-rising Type Ibn supernova from a massive progenitor

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Karamehmetoglu, E 
Taddia, F 
Sollerman, J 
Wyrzykowski, Ł 
Schmidl, S 

Abstract

Context. Type Ibn supernovae (SNe Ibn) are thought to be the core-collapse explosions of massive stars whose ejecta interact with He-rich circumstellar material (CSM). Aims. We report the discovery of a SN Ibn, with the longest rise-time ever observed, OGLE-2014-SN-131. We discuss the potential powering mechanisms and the progenitor nature of this peculiar stripped-envelope (SE), circumstellar-interacting SN. Methods. Optical photometry and spectroscopy were obtained with multiple telescopes including VLT, NTT, and GROND. We compare light curves and spectra with those of other known SNe Ibn and Ibc. CSM velocities are derived from the spectral analysis. The SN light curve is modeled under different assumptions about its powering mechanism (56Ni decay, CSM-interaction, magnetar) in order to estimate the SN progenitor parameters. Results. OGLE-2014-SN-131 spectroscopically resembles SNe Ibn such as SN 2010al. Its peak luminosity and post-peak colors are also similar to those of other SNe Ibn. However, it shows an unprecedentedly long rise-time and a much broader light curve compared to other SNe Ibn. Its bolometric light curve can be reproduced by magnetar and CSM-interaction models, but not by a 56Ni-decay powering model. Conclusions. To explain the unusually long rise-time, the broad light curve, the light curve decline, and the spectra characterized by narrow emission lines, we favor a powering mechanism where the SN ejecta are interacting with a dense CSM. The progenitor of OGLE-2014-SN-131 was likely a Wolf-Rayet star with a mass greater than that of a typical SN Ibn progenitor, which expelled the CSM that the SN is interacting with.

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Supernovae: general, Supernovae: individual: OGLE-2014-SN-131

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Astronomy & Astrophysics

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0004-6361
1432-0746

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EDP Sciences
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European Research Council (320360)
L. Wyrzykowski acknowledges the National Science Centre’s grant no. 2015/17/B/ST9/03167. S. Schmidl acknowledges support by DFG grant Kl 766/16-1 and the Thüringer Ministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur under FKZ 12010-514. S. J. Smartt acknowledges funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/ERC Grant agreement no [291222] and STFC grants ST/I001123/1 and ST/L000709/1. M. Sullivan acknowledges support from EU/FP7-ERC grant 615929 and STFC grant ST/L000679/1. We gratefully acknowledge support from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. This work is based on observations collected at the European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere, Chile as part of PESSTO, (the Public ESO Spectroscopic Survey for Transient Objects Survey) ESO programme 191.D-0935. This research has made use of the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED) which is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The Oskar Klein Centre is funded by the Swedish Research Council. The OGLE project has received funding from the National Science Centre, Poland, grant MAESTRO 2014/14/A/ST9/00121 to AU. This work has been supported by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education through the program “Ideas Plus” award No. IdP2002 000162 to IS. Part of the funding for GROND (both hardware as well as personnel) was generously granted from the Leibniz-Prize to Prof. G. Hasinger (DFG grant HA 1850/28-1). This work was partly supported by the European Union FP7 programme through ERC grant number 320360. This work is based on observations collected under ESO DDT proposal no 294.D-5011.