GALEX spectroscopy of SN 2005ay suggests ultraviolet spectral uniformity among type II-P supernovae
- Creators
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Gal-Yam, A.
- Bufano, F.
- Barlow, T. A.
- Baron, E.
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Benetti, S.
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Cappellaro, E.
- Challis, P. J.
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Ellis, R. S.
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Filippenko, A. V.
- Foley, R. J.
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Fox, D. B.
- Hicken, M.
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Kirshner, R. P.
- Leonard, D. C.
- Li, W.
- Maoz, D.
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Matheson, T.
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Mazzali, P. A.
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Modjaz, M.
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Nomoto, K.
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Ofek, E. O.
- Simon, J. D.
- Small, T. A.
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Smith, G. P.
- Turatto, M.
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van Dyk, S. D.
- Zampieri, L.
Abstract
We present the initial results from our GALEX program designed to obtain ultraviolet (UV) spectra of nearby core-collapse supernovae (SNe). Our first target, SN 2005ay in the nearby galaxy NGC 3938, is a typical member of the SN II-P subclass. Our spectra show remarkable similarity to those of the prototypical Type II-P SN 1999em, and resemble also Swift observations of the recent Type II-P SN 2005cs. Taken together, the observations of these three events trace the UV spectral evolution of SNe II-P during the first month after explosion, as required in order to interpret optical observations of high-redshift SNe II-P, and to derive cross-filter K-corrections. While still highly preliminary, the apparent UV homogeneity of SNe II-P bodes well for the use of these events as cosmological probes at high redshift.
Additional Information
© 2008 The American Astronomical Society. Received 2008 June 24; accepted 2008 August 21; published 2008 September 16. Based on observations made with the NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer, GALEX, which is operated for NASA by the California Institute of Technology under NASA contract NAS5-98034. We further acknowledge financial support from NASA through the GALEX guest investigator program (projects GALEX-GI-44, cycle 1; GALEX-GI-67, cycle 3; and GALEX-GI-20, cycle 4).We are indebted to the GALEX Science Operations Center (SOC), and in particular to K. Forster, for making this ToO program possible. We thank D. Poznanski for comments on the manuscript, and the referee, V. Utrobin, for useful suggestions. We gratefully acknowledge the SUSPECT supernova spectra database maintained by the University of Oklahoma. A. G. acknowledges support by the Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics, a research grant from Peter and Patricia Gruber Awards, and the William Z. and Eda Bess Novick New Scientists Fund at the Weizmann Institute. A. V. F.'s group is partially funded by NSF grant AST 06-07485 and the TABASGO Foundation. S. B., E. C., and M. T. are supported by the Italian Ministry of Education via the PRIN 2006 n.2006022731 002.Attached Files
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20090408-095231425
- NASA
- NAS5-98034
- NSF
- AST 06-07485
- TABASGO Foundation
- Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca (MIUR)
- PRIN 2006 n.2006022731 002
- Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics
- Peter and Patricia Gruber Awards
- William Z. and Eda Bess Novick New Scientists Fund at the Weizmann Institute
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2009-04-17Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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