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23 April 2024

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Late-time Observations of Calcium-Rich Transient SN 2019ehk Reveal a Pure Radioactive Decay Power Source
Wynn V. Jacobson-Galán ; Raffaella Margutti ; Charles D. Kilpatrick ; John Raymond ; Edo Berger ; Peter K. Blanchard ; Alexey Bobrick ; Ryan J. Foley ; Sebastian Gomez ; Griffin Hosseinzadeh ; Danny Milisavljevic ; Hagai Perets ; Giacomo Terreran ; Yossef Zenati ;
Date:	29 Oct 2020
Abstract:	We present $ extit{Hubble Space Telescope}$ imaging of the Calcium-rich supernova (SN) 2019ehk at 276 - 389 days after explosion. These observations represent the latest photometric measurements of a Calcium-rich transient to date and allows for the first opportunity to analyze the late-time evolution of an object in this observational SN class. We find that the late-time bolometric light curve of SN 2019ehk can be described predominantly through the radioactive decay of ${}^{56} extrm{Co}$ for which we derive a mass of $M({}^{56} extrm{Co}) = (2.8 pm 0.1) imes 10^{-2}$$ m{M}_odot$. Furthermore, the rate of decline in bolometric luminosity requires the leakage of $gamma$-rays on timescale $t_{gamma} = 53.9 pm 1.30$ days, but we find no statistical evidence for incomplete positron trapping in the SN ejecta. While our observations cannot constrain the exact masses of other radioactive isotopes synthesized in SN 2019ehk, we estimate a mass ratio limit of $M({}^{57} extrm{Co}) / M({}^{56} extrm{Co}) leq 0.030$. This limit is consistent with the explosive nucleosynthesis produced in the merger of low-mass white dwarfs, which is one of the favored progenitor scenarios in early-time studies of SN 2019ehk.
Source:	arXiv, 2010.15863
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