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SN2023ixf in Messier 101: the twilight years of the progenitor as seen by Pan-STARRS

Authors :
Ransome, Conor L.
Villar, V. Ashley
Tartaglia, Anna
Gonzalez, Sebastian Javier
Jacobson-Galán, Wynn V.
Kilpatrick, Charles D.
Margutti, Raffaella
Foley, Ryan J.
Grayling, Matthew
Ni, Yuan Qi
Yarza, Ricardo
Ye, Christine
Auchettl, Katie
de Boer, Thomas
Chambers, Kenneth C.
Coulter, David A.
Drout, Maria R.
Farias, Diego
Gall, Christa
Gao, Hua
Huber, Mark E.
Ibik, Adaeze L.
Jones, David O.
Khetan, Nandita
Lin, Chien-Cheng
Politsch, Collin A.
Raimundo, Sandra I.
Rest, Armin
Wainscoat, Richard J.
Yadavalli, S. Karthik
Zenati, Yossef
Publication Year :
2023

Abstract

The nearby type II supernova, SN2023ixf in M101 exhibits signatures of early-time interaction with circumstellar material in the first week post-explosion. This material may be the consequence of prior mass loss suffered by the progenitor which possibly manifested in the form of a detectable pre-supernova outburst. We present an analysis of the long-baseline pre-explosion photometric data in $g$, $w$, $r$, $i$, $z$ and $y$ filters from Pan-STARRS as part of the Young Supernova Experiment, spanning $\sim$5,000 days. We find no significant detections in the Pan-STARRS pre-explosion light curve. We train a multilayer perceptron neural network to classify pre-supernova outbursts. We find no evidence of eruptive pre-supernova activity to a limiting absolute magnitude of $-7$. The limiting magnitudes from the full set of $gwrizy$ (average absolute magnitude $\approx$-8) data are consistent with previous pre-explosion studies. We use deep photometry from the literature to constrain the progenitor of SN2023ixf, finding that these data are consistent with a dusty red supergiant (RSG) progenitor with luminosity $\log\left(L/L_\odot\right)$$\approx$5.12 and temperature $\approx$3950K, corresponding to a mass of 14-20 M$_\odot$<br />Comment: 19 pages, 8 figures, 1 table

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.2312.04426
Document Type :
Working Paper