Survival of the Fittest: Numerical Modeling of Supernova 2014C

02/24/2021
by   Felipe Vargas, et al.
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Initially classified as a supernova (SN) type Ib, ∼ 100 days after the explosion SN 2014C made a transition to a SN type II, presenting a gradual increase in the Hα emission. This has been interpreted as evidence of interaction between the supernova shock wave and a massive shell previously ejected from the progenitor star. In this paper, we present numerical simulations of the propagation of the SN shock through the progenitor star and its wind, as well as the interaction of the SN ejecta with the massive shell. To determine with high precision the structure and location of the shell, we couple a genetic algorithm to a hydrodynamic and a bremsstrahlung radiation transfer code. We iteratively modify the density stratification and location of the shell by minimizing the variance between X-ray observations and synthetic predictions computed from the numerical model. By assuming spherical symmetry, we found that the shell has a mass of 2.6 M_⊙, extends from 1.6 × 10^16 cm to 1.87 × 10^17 cm, implying that it was ejected ∼ 60/(v_w/100 km s^-1) yrs before the SN explosion, and has a density stratification decaying as ∼ r^-3. We found that the product of metallicity by the ionization fraction (due to photo-ionization by the post-shock X-ray emission) we predict that, if the density stratification follows the same power-law behaviour, the SN will break out from the shell by mid 2022, i.e. 8.5 years after explosion.

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