Optical photometry of SN 2020aeuh

Identifying the progenitors of thermonuclear supernovae (Type Ia supernovae; SNe Ia) remains a key objective in contemporary astronomy. The rare subclass of SNe Ia-CSM that interacts with circumstellar material (CSM) allows for studies of the progenitor's environment before explosion, and generally favours single-degenerate progenitor channels. The case of SN Ia-CSM PTF11kx clearly connected thermonuclear explosions with hydrogen-rich CSM-interacting events, and the more recent SN 2020eyj connected SNe Ia with helium-rich companion progenitors. Both of these objects displayed delayed CSM interaction which established their thermonuclear nature. Here we present a study of SN2020aeuh, a Type Ia-CSM with delayed interaction. We analyse photometric and spectroscopic data that monitor the evolution of SN2020aeuh and compare its properties with those of peculiar SNe Ia and core-collapse SNe. At early times, the evolution of SN2020aeuh resembles a slightly overluminous SN~Ia. Later, the interaction-dominated spectra develop the same pseudocontinuum seen in Type Ia-CSM PTF11kx and SN 2020eyj. However, the later-time spectra of SN2020aeuh lack hydrogen and helium narrow lines. Instead, a few narrow lines could be attributed to carbon and oxygen. We fit the pseudobolometric light curve with a CSM-interaction model, yielding a CSM mass of 1-2M_{sun}_. We propose that SN2020aeuh was a Type Ia supernova that eventually interacted with a dense medium which was deficient in both hydrogen and helium. Whereas previous SNe Ia-CSM constitute our best evidence for nondegenerate companion progenitors, the CSM around SN2020aeuh is more difficult to understand. We include a hydrodynamical simulation for a double-degenerate dynamical collision to showcase that such a progenitor scenario could produce significant amounts of hydrogen-poor CSM, although likely not as much as the inferred CSM mass around SN2020aeuh. It is clear that SN2020aeuh challenges current models for stellar evolution leading up to a SN Ia explosion.

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Creator Tsalapatas K.; Sollerman J.; Chiba R.; Kool E.; Johansson J.; Rosswog S.,Schulze S.; Moriya T.J.; Andreoni I.; Brink T.G.; Chen T.X.; Covarrubias S.,De K.; Dimitriadis G.; Filippenko A.V.; Fremling C.; Gangopadhyay A.,Maguire K.; Mo G.; Sharma Y.; Sravan N.; Terwel J.H.; Yang Y.
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2025
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Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics; Stellar Astronomy