Characterization of type Ibn SNe Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Farias D.
  2. Gall C.
  3. Villar V.A.
  4. Auchettl K.
  5. de Soto K.M.
  6. Gagliano A.,Hoogendam W.B.
  7. Narayan G.
  8. Sedgewick A.
  9. Yadavalli S.K.
  10. Zenati Y.,Angus C.R.
  11. Davis K.W.
  12. Hjorth J.
  13. Jacobson-Galan W.V.
  14. Jones D.O.,Kilpatrick C.D.
  15. Bustamante Rosell M.J.
  16. Coulter D.A.
  17. Dimitriadis G.,Foley R.J.
  18. Gangopadhyay A.
  19. Gao H.
  20. Huber M.E.
  21. Izzo L.
  22. Johnson J.L.,Piro A.L.
  23. Rest A.
  24. Rojas-Bravo C.
  25. Siebert M.R.
  26. Taggart K.
  27. Tinyanont S.
  28. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

Type Ibn supernovae (SNe) are characterized by narrow helium (He i) lines from photons produced by the unshocked circumstellar material (CSM). About 80 SNe Ibn have been discovered to date, and only a handful have extensive observational records. Thus, many open questions regarding the progenitor system and the origin of the CSM remain. Here we investigate potential correlations between the spectral features of the prominent HeI {lambda}5876{AA} line and the optical and X-ray light curve properties of SNe Ibn. We compile the largest sample of 61 SNe Ibn to date, of which 24 SNe have photometric and spectroscopic data from the Young Supernova Experiment and 37 SNe have archival data sets. We fit 24 SNe Ibn with sufficient photometric coverage (B to z bands) using semi-analytical models from MOSFiT. We demonstrate that the light curves of SNe Ibn are more diverse than previous analyses suggest, with absolute r-band peak magnitudes (rmax) of -19.4+/-0.6mag and rise (from ~10 days to peak, {gamma}_-10_) and decay-rates (from peak to +10 days; {gamma}_+10_) of -0.08+/-0.06 and 0.08+/-0.03mag/day, respectively. We find that the majority of SNe Ibn in the sub-sample are consistent with a low-energy explosion (<10^51^erg) of a star with a compact envelope surrounded by ~0.1M_{sun}_ of helium-rich CSM. The inferred ejecta masses are small (M_ej_~1M_{sun}_) and expand with a velocity of ~5000km/s. Our spectroscopic analysis shows that the mean velocity of the narrow component of the HeI lines, associated to the CSM, peaks at ~1100km/s. The mean CSM and ejecta masses inferred for a sub-sample of SNe Ibn indicate that their progenitors are not massive (~10M_{sun}_), single stars at the moment of explosion, but are likely binary systems. This agrees with the detection of potential companion stars of SNe Ibn progenitors, and the inferred CSM properties from stellar evolution models.

Keywords
  1. supernovae
  2. photometry
  3. visible-astronomy
  4. ultraviolet-astronomy
  5. spectroscopy
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2026A&A...708A.270F
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2026-04-15T08:41:21Z
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