Close, bright, and boxy: the superluminous SN 2018hti

A. Fiore, S. Benetti, M. Nicholl, A. Reguitti, E. Cappellaro, S. Campana, S. Bose, E. Paraskeva, E. Berger, T. M. Bravo, J. Burke, Y. Z. Cai, T. W. Chen, P. Chen, R. Ciolfi, S. Dong, S. Gomez, M. Gromadzki, C. P. Gutiérrez, D. HiramatsuG. Hosseinzadeh, D. A. Howell, A. Jerkstrand, E. Kankare, A. Kozyreva, K. Maguire, C. McCully, P. Ochner, C. Pellegrino, G. Pignata, R. S. Post, N. Elias-Rosa, M. Shahbandeh, S. Schuldt, B. P. Thomas, L. Tomasella, J. Vinkó, C. Vogl, J. C. Wheeler, D. R. Young

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Abstract

SN 2018hti was a very nearby (z = 0.0614) superluminous supernova with an exceedingly bright absolute magnitude of -21.7 mag in r band at maximum. The densely sampled pre-maximum light curves of SN 2018hti show a slow luminosity evolution and constrain the rise time to ∼50 rest-frame d. We fitted synthetic light curves to the photometry to infer the physical parameters of the explosion of SN 2018hti for both the magnetar and the CSM-interaction scenarios. We conclude that one of two mechanisms could be powering the luminosity of SN 2018hti; interaction with ∼10 M⊙ of circumstellar material or a magnetar with a magnetic field of Bp∼1.3 × 1013 G, and initial period of Pspin∼1.8 ms. From the nebular spectrum modelling we infer that SN 2018hti likely results from the explosion of a ∼40M⊙ progenitor star.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)4484-4502
Number of pages19
JournalMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Volume512
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 May 2022

Keywords

  • supernovae: general
  • supernovae: individual: SN 2018hti

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