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The Carnegie supernova project II

Stritzinger, M. D., Taddia, F., Fraser, M., Tauris, T. M., Contreras, C., Drybye, S., Galbany, L., Holmbo, S., Morrell, N., Pastorello, A., Phillips, M. M., Pignata, G., Tartaglia, L., Suntzeff, N. B., Anais, J., Ashall, C., Baron, E., Burns, C. R., Hoeflich, P., Hsiao, E. Y., Karamehmetoglu, E., Moriya, T. J., Bock, G., Campillay, A., Castellón, S., Inserra, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3968-4409, González, C., Marples, P., Parker, S., Reichart, D., Torres-Robledo, S. and Young, D. R. 2020. The Carnegie supernova project II. Astronomy and Astrophysics 639 , A104. 10.1051/0004-6361/202038019

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Abstract

We present optical and near-infrared broadband photometry and optical spectra of AT 2014ej from the Carnegie Supernova Project-II. These observations are complemented with data from the CHilean Automatic Supernova sEarch, the Public ESO Spectroscopic Survey of Transient Objects, and from the Backyard Observatory Supernova Search. Observational signatures of AT 2014ej reveal that it is similar to other members of the gap-transient subclass known as luminous red novae (LRNe), including the ubiquitous double-hump light curve and spectral properties similar to that of LRN SN 2017jfs. A medium-dispersion visual-wavelength spectrum of AT 2014ej taken with the Magellan Clay telescope exhibits a P Cygni Hα feature characterized by a blue velocity at zero intensity of ≈110 km s−1 and a P Cygni minimum velocity of ≈70 km s−1. We attribute this to emission from a circumstellar wind. Inspection of pre-outbust Hubble Space Telescope images yields no conclusive progenitor detection. In comparison with a sample of LRNe from the literature, AT 2014ej lies at the brighter end of the luminosity distribution. Comparison of the ultra-violet, optical, infrared light curves of well-observed LRNe to common-envelope evolution models from the literature indicates that the models underpredict the luminosity of the comparison sample at all phases and also produce inconsistent timescales of the secondary peak. Future efforts to model LRNe should expand upon the current parameter space we explore here and therefore may consider more massive systems and a wider range of dynamical timescales.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Published Online
Status: Published
Schools: Physics and Astronomy
Publisher: EDP Sciences
ISSN: 0004-6361
Date of First Compliant Deposit: 18 September 2020
Date of Acceptance: 15 May 2020
Last Modified: 05 May 2023 01:22
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/134923

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