Properties of Type II Plateau Supernova SNLS-04D2dc: Multicolor Light Curves of Shock Breakout and Plateau TeX Export

@article{citeulike:5458165, abstract = {Shock breakout is the brightest radiative phenomenon in a Type II supernova (SN). Although it was predicted to be bright, the direct observation is difficult due to the short duration and X-ray/ultraviolet-peaked spectra. First entire observations of the shock breakouts of Type II Plateau SNe (SNe IIP) were reported in 2008 by ultraviolet and optical observations by the {\it GALEX} satellite and supernova legacy survey (SNLS), named SNLS-04D2dc and SNLS-06D1jd. We present multicolor light curves of a SN IIP, including the shock breakout and plateau, calculated with a multigroup radiation hydrodynamical code {\sc STELLA} and an evolutionary progenitor model. The synthetic multicolor light curves reproduce well the observations of SNLS-04D2dc. This is the first study to reproduce the ultraviolet light curve of the shock breakout and the optical light curve of the plateau consistently. We conclude that SNLS-04D2dc is the explosion with a canonical explosion energy (\$\sim1.2\times10^{51}\$ ergs) and its progenitor is a star with a zero-age main-sequence mass \$20M\_\odot\$ and a presupernova radius \$800R\_\odot\$. The model demonstrates that the peak apparent \$B\$-band magnitude of the shock breakout would be \$m\_{\rm B}\sim26.3\$ mag. if a SN being identical to \SN\ occurs at a redshift \$z=1\$, which can be reached by 8m-class telescopes. The result evidences that the shock breakout has a great potential to detect SNe IIP at \$z\gsim1\$.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Tominaga, N. and Blinnikov, S. and Baklanov, P. and Nomoto, K.}, citeulike-article-id = {5458165}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0908.2162}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/0908.2162}, day = {15}, eprint = {0908.2162}, keywords = {i, sn, supernovae}, month = {Aug}, posted-at = {2009-08-18 08:40:48}, priority = {2}, title = {Properties of Type II Plateau Supernova SNLS-04D2dc: Multicolor Light Curves of Shock Breakout and Plateau}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0908.2162}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5458165 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5458165 N2 - Shock breakout is the brightest radiative phenomenon in a Type II supernova (SN). Although it was predicted to be bright, the direct observation is difficult due to the short duration and X-ray/ultraviolet-peaked spectra. First entire observations of the shock breakouts of Type II Plateau SNe (SNe IIP) were reported in 2008 by ultraviolet and optical observations by the {\it GALEX} satellite and supernova legacy survey (SNLS), named SNLS-04D2dc and SNLS-06D1jd. We present multicolor light curves of a SN IIP, including the shock breakout and plateau, calculated with a multigroup radiation hydrodynamical code {\sc STELLA} and an evolutionary progenitor model. The synthetic multicolor light curves reproduce well the observations of SNLS-04D2dc. This is the first study to reproduce the ultraviolet light curve of the shock breakout and the optical light curve of the plateau consistently. We conclude that SNLS-04D2dc is the explosion with a canonical explosion energy ($\sim1.2\times10^{51}$ ergs) and its progenitor is a star with a zero-age main-sequence mass $20M_\odot$ and a presupernova radius $800R_\odot$. The model demonstrates that the peak apparent $B$-band magnitude of the shock breakout would be $m_{\rm B}\sim26.3$ mag. if a SN being identical to \SN\ occurs at a redshift $z=1$, which can be reached by 8m-class telescopes. The result evidences that the shock breakout has a great potential to detect SNe IIP at $z\gsim1$. TI - Properties of Type II Plateau Supernova SNLS-04D2dc: Multicolor Light Curves of Shock Breakout and Plateau KW - i KW - sn KW - supernovae AU - Tominaga, N AU - Blinnikov, S AU - Baklanov, P AU - Nomoto, K PY - 2009/Aug/15/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/0908.2162 ER -