We examine flash spectroscopy of a circumstellar medium (CSM) ionized by the hard radiation pulse produced by the emerging shock of a supernova (SN). We first find that the rise and fall times of the Halpha emission constrains the location of the CSM with a peak at tpeak=Rstar sqrt(2/c vshock) for a star of radius Rstar and a shock velocity of vshock. The dropping temperature of the transient emission naturally reproduces the evolution of lines with different ionization energies. Second, for red supergiants (RSGs), the shock break out radiatively accelerates the CSM to produce broad, early-time line wings independent of the Thomson optical depth of the CSM. Finally, the CSM recombination rates in binaries can be dominated by a dense, cool, wind collision interface like those seen in Wolf-Rayet binaries rather than the individual stellar winds. Combining these three results, the flash spectroscopy observations of the normal Type IIP iPTF13dqy (SN 2013fs) are naturally explained by an RSG with a normal, Thomson optically thin wind in a binary with a separation of ~10^4 Rsun without any need for a pre-SN eruption. Similarly, the broad line wings seen for the Type IIb iPTF13ast (SN 2013cu), whose progenitors are generally yellow supergiants in binaries, are likely due to radiative acceleration of the CSM rather than pre-existing, Wolf-Rayet-like wind.
SN 2019vxm: A luminous and long-lived Type IIn supernova with early flash-ionisation features
Tsinghua University(清华大学);Yunnan Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)(中国科学院云南天文台);INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova(意大利国家天体物理研究所帕多瓦天文台);National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, National Institutes of Natural Sciences(日本国立天文台,国立自然科学研究院);Graduate Institute for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI(综合研究大学院大学(SOKENDAI));School of Physics and Astronomy, Monash University(蒙纳士大学物理与天文学院);Purple Mountain Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院紫金山天文台);INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera(意大利国家天体物理研究所布雷拉天文台);Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley(加州大学伯克利分校天文学系)
SN 2019vxm是一颗峰值亮度高、演化缓慢的IIn型超新星,早期光谱显示闪光电离特征,后期红外超表明新尘埃形成,其光变曲线与SN 2010jl相似。