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Jencson, JE, Kasliwal, MM, Adams, SM, Bond, HE, De, K, Johansson, J, Karambelkar, V, Lau, RM, Tinyanont, S, Ryder, SD, Cody, AM, Masci, FJ, Bally, J, Blagorodnova, N, Castellon, S, Fremling, C, Gehrz, RD, Helou, G, Kilpatrick, CD, Milne, PA , Morrell, N, Perley, DA, Phillips, MM, Smith, N, van Dyk, SD and Williams, RE (2019) The SPIRITS Sample of Luminous Infrared Transients: Uncovering Hidden Supernovae and Dusty Stellar Outbursts in Nearby Galaxies. Astrophysical Journal, 886 (1). ISSN 0004-637X
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Abstract
We present a systematic study of the most luminous (M IR [Vega magnitudes] brighter than −14) infrared (IR) transients discovered by the SPitzer InfraRed Intensive Transients Survey (SPIRITS) between 2014 and 2018 in nearby galaxies (D < 35 Mpc). The sample consists of nine events that span peak IR luminosities of M [4.5],peak between −14 and −18.2, show IR colors between 0.2 < ([3.6]–[4.5]) < 3.0, and fade on timescales between 55 days < t fade < 480 days. The two reddest events (A V > 12) show multiple, luminous IR outbursts over several years and have directly detected, massive progenitors in archival imaging. With analyses of extensive, multiwavelength follow-up, we suggest the following possible classifications: five obscured core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe), two erupting massive stars, one luminous red nova, and one intermediate-luminosity red transient. We define a control sample of all optically discovered transients recovered in SPIRITS galaxies and satisfying the same selection criteria. The control sample consists of eight CCSNe and one Type Iax SN. We find that 7 of the 13 CCSNe in the SPIRITS sample have lower bounds on their extinction of 2 < A V < 8. We estimate a nominal fraction of CCSNe in nearby galaxies that are missed by optical surveys as high as ${38.5}_{-21.9}^{+26.0} \% $ (90% confidence). This study suggests that a significant fraction of CCSNe may be heavily obscured by dust and therefore undercounted in the census of nearby CCSNe from optical searches.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | 0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences, 0202 Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics, 0306 Physical Chemistry (incl. Structural) |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QB Astronomy Q Science > QC Physics |
| Divisions: | Astrophysics Research Institute |
| Publisher: | American Astronomical Society; IOP Publishing |
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| Date Deposited: | 29 Jan 2020 11:02 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Sep 2021 08:01 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.3847/1538-4357/ab4a01 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/12136 |
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