no code implementations • 11 Mar 2021 • Shing-Chi Leung, Jim Fuller, Ken'ichi Nomoto
The fast rise in luminosity of this SN (spectroscopically classified as a broad-lined Type Ic SN), indicates that the ejecta interacts with a dense circumstellar medium (CSM), while an additional energy source such as $^{56}$Ni-decay is required to explain the late-time light curve.
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
no code implementations • 26 Jun 2020 • Ping Zhou, Shing-Chi Leung, Zhiyuan Li, Ken'ichi Nomoto, Jacco Vink, Yang Chen
We report evidence that SNR Sgr A East in the Galactic center resulted from a pure turbulent deflagration of a Chandrasekhar-mass carbon-oxygen WD, an explosion mechanism used for type Iax SNe.
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena