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Bruch, RJ, Gal-Yam, A, Schulze, S, Yaron, O, Yang, Y, Soumagnac, MT, Rigault, M, Strotjohann, NL, Ofek, E, Sollerman, J, Masci, FJ, Barbarino, C, Ho, AYQ, Fremling, C, Perley, DA, Nordin, J, Cenko, SB, Adams, S, Adreoni, I, Bellm, EC , Blagorodnova, N, Bulla, M, Burdge, K, De, K, Dhawan, S, Drake, AJ, Duev, DA, Dugas, A, Graham, M, Graham, ML, Jencson, J, Karamehmetoglu, E, Kasliwal, M, Kim, Y-L, Kulkarni, S, Kupfer, T, Mahabal, A, Miller, AA, Prince, TA, Riddle, R, Sharma, Y, Smith, R, Taddia, F, Taggart, K, Walters, R and Yan, L (2021) A large fraction of hydrogen-rich supernova progenitors experience elevated mass loss shortly prior to explosion. Astrophysical Journal, 912 (1). ISSN 0004-637X
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Abstract
Spectroscopic detection of narrow emission lines traces the presence of circumstellar mass distributions around massive stars exploding as core-collapse supernovae. Transient emission lines disappearing shortly after the supernova explosion suggest that the spatial extent of such material is compact, and hence imply an increased mass loss shortly prior to explosion. Here, we present a systematic survey for such transient emission lines (Flash Spectroscopy) among Type II supernovae detected in the first year of the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) survey. We find that at least six out of ten events for which a spectrum was obtained within two days of estimated explosion time show evidence for such transient flash lines. Our measured flash event fraction ($>30\%$ at $95\%$ confidence level) indicates that elevated mass loss is a common process occurring in massive stars that are about to explode as supernovae.
| 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 |
| Divisions: | Astrophysics Research Institute |
| Publisher: | American Astronomical Society; IOP Publishing |
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| Date Deposited: | 29 Nov 2021 15:07 |
| Last Modified: | 04 May 2022 00:50 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.3847/1538-4357/abef05 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/15833 |
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