The Astrophysical Journal Letters (Jan 2024)

Extended Shock Breakout and Early Circumstellar Interaction in SN 2024ggi

  • Manisha Shrestha,
  • K. Azalee Bostroem,
  • David J. Sand,
  • Griffin Hosseinzadeh,
  • Jennifer E. Andrews,
  • Yize Dong,
  • Emily Hoang,
  • Daryl Janzen,
  • Jeniveve Pearson,
  • Jacob E. Jencson,
  • M. J. Lundquist,
  • Darshana Mehta,
  • Aravind P. Ravi,
  • Nicolás Meza Retamal,
  • Stefano Valenti,
  • Peter J. Brown,
  • Saurabh W. Jha,
  • Colin Macrie,
  • Brian Hsu,
  • Joseph Farah,
  • D. Andrew Howell,
  • Curtis McCully,
  • Megan Newsome,
  • Estefania Padilla Gonzalez,
  • Craig Pellegrino,
  • Giacomo Terreran,
  • Lindsey Kwok,
  • Nathan Smith,
  • Michaela Schwab,
  • Aidan Martas,
  • Ricardo R. Munoz,
  • Gustavo E. Medina,
  • Ting S. Li,
  • Paula Diaz,
  • Daichi Hiramatsu,
  • Brad E. Tucker,
  • J. C. Wheeler,
  • Xiaofeng Wang,
  • Qian Zhai,
  • Jujia Zhang,
  • Anjasha Gangopadhyay,
  • Yi Yang,
  • Claudia P. Gutiérrez

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ad6907
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 972, no. 1
p. L15

Abstract

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We present high-cadence photometric and spectroscopic observations of supernova (SN) 2024ggi, a Type II SN with flash spectroscopy features, which exploded in the nearby galaxy NGC 3621 at ∼7 Mpc. The light-curve evolution over the first 30 hr can be fit by two power-law indices with a break after 22 hr, rising from M _V ≈ −12.95 mag at +0.66 day to M _V ≈ −17.91 mag after 7 days. In addition, the densely sampled color curve shows a strong blueward evolution over the first few days and then behaves as a normal SN II with a redward evolution as the ejecta cool. Such deviations could be due to interaction with circumstellar material (CSM). Early high- and low-resolution spectra clearly show high-ionization flash features from the first spectrum to +3.42 days after the explosion. From the high-resolution spectra, we calculate the CSM velocity to be 37 ± 4 km s ^−1 . We also see the line strength evolve rapidly from 1.22 to 1.49 days in the earliest high-resolution spectra. Comparison of the low-resolution spectra with CMFGEN models suggests that the pre-explosion mass-loss rate of SN 2024ggi falls in the range of 10 ^−3 –10 ^−2 M _☉ yr ^−1 , which is similar to that derived for SN 2023ixf. However, the rapid temporal evolution of the narrow lines in the spectra of SN 2024ggi ( R _CSM ∼ 2.7 × 10 ^14 cm) could indicate a smaller spatial extent of the CSM than in SN 2023ixf ( R _CSM ∼ 5.4 × 10 ^14 cm), which in turn implies a lower total CSM mass for SN 2024ggi.

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