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  • SN2018kzr: A Rapidly Declin...
    McBrien, Owen R.; Smartt, Stephen J.; Chen, Ting-Wan; Inserra, Cosimo; Gillanders, James H.; Sim, Stuart A.; Jerkstrand, Anders; Rest, Armin; Valenti, Stefano; Roy, Rupak; Gromadzki, Mariusz; Taubenberger, Stefan; Flörs, Andreas; Huber, Mark E.; Chambers, Ken C.; Gal-Yam, Avishay; Young, David R.; Nicholl, Matt; Kankare, Erkki; Smith, Ken W.; Maguire, Kate; Mandel, Ilya; Prentice, Simon; Rodríguez, Ósmar; Garcia, Jonathan Pineda; Gutiérrez, Claudia P.; Galbany, Lluís; Barbarino, Cristina; Clark, Peter S. J.; Sollerman, Jesper; Kulkarni, Shrinivas R.; De, Kishalay; Buckley, David A. H.; Rau, Arne

    Astrophysical journal. Letters, 11/2019, Letnik: 885, Številka: 1
    Journal Article

    We present SN2018kzr, the fastest declining supernova-like transient, second only to the kilonova, AT2017gfo. SN2018kzr is characterized by a peak magnitude of Mr = −17.98, a peak bolometric luminosity of ∼1.4 × 1043 erg s−1, and a rapid decline rate of 0.48 0.03 mag day−1 in the r band. The bolometric luminosity evolves too quickly to be explained by pure 56Ni heating, necessitating the inclusion of an alternative powering source. Incorporating the spin-down of a magnetized neutron star adequately describes the lightcurve and we estimate a small ejecta mass of Mej = 0.10 0.05 M . Our spectral modeling suggests the ejecta is composed of intermediate mass elements including O, Si, and Mg and trace amounts of Fe-peak elements, which disfavors a binary neutron star merger. We discuss three explosion scenarios for SN2018kzr, given the low ejecta mass, intermediate mass element composition, and high likelihood of additional powering-the core collapse of an ultra-stripped progenitor, the accretion induced collapse (AIC) of a white dwarf, and the merger of a white dwarf and neutron star. The requirement for an alternative input energy source favors either the AIC with magnetar powering or a white dwarf-neutron star merger with energy from disk wind shocks.