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2015MNRAS.447.3207M - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 447, 3207-3217 (2015/March-2)

Whatever happened to the progenitors of supernovae 2008cn, 2009kr and 2009md?

MAUND J.R., FRASER M., REILLY E., ERGON M. and MATTILA S.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present new late-time, high-resolution observations of the sites of supernovae (SNe) 2008cn, 2009kr and 2009md, acquired with the Hubble Space Telescope. In all instances, significant flux from the SNe is still recovered at late times. We show that the previous identification of the progenitor of SN 2008cn was actually a blend of two sources, whose locations are resolved in these new observations. We suggest that the progenitor of SN 2008cn was actually a red supergiant with Minit < 16M. In the late-time observations of SN 2009kr, we find that the pre-explosion source (previously thought to be a yellow supergiant) is most probably a small compact cluster with mass ∼ 6000M. In late-time F814W observations of the site of SN 2009md, we find a single point source with identical brightness to the pre-explosion source, suggesting some caution in assuming that the pre-explosion source was the progenitor.

Abstract Copyright: © 2015 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society (2015)

Journal keyword(s): supernovae: general - supernovae: individual: 2008cn - supernovae: individual: 2009kr - supernovae: individual: 2009md

Simbad objects: 15

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