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ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL
Volume 142, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-6256/142/2/45
Keywords
circumstellar matter; dust, extinction; supernovae: general; supernovae: individual (SN 2010jl)
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- NSF [AST-0707691, AST-0503871, AST-0803158]
- NASA GSRP [NNX08AV36H]
- Spitzer Space Telescope, JPL/Caltech [RSA 1415602, RSA 1346842]
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/G002827/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- STFC [ST/G002827/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Astronomical Sciences [0803158] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- NASA [NNX08AV36H, 94456] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
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SN 2010jl was an extremely bright, Type IIn supernova (SN) which showed a significant infrared (IR) excess no later than 90 days after explosion. We have obtained Spitzer 3.6 and 4.5 mu m and JHK observations of SN 2010jl similar to 90 days post-explosion. Little to no reddening in the host galaxy indicated that the circumstellar material lost from the progenitor must lie in a torus inclined out of the plane of the sky. The likely cause of the high mid-IR flux is the reprocessing of the initial flash of the SN by pre-existing circumstellar dust. Using a three-dimensional Monte Carlo radiative-transfer code, we have estimated that between 0.03 and 0.35M(circle dot) of dust exists in a circumstellar torus around the SN located 6 x 10(17) cm away from the SN and inclined between 60 degrees and 80 degrees to the plane of the sky. On day 90, we are only seeing the illumination of approximately 5% of this torus, and expect to see an elevated IR flux from this material up until day similar to 450. It is likely this dust was created in a luminous blue variable (LBV) like mass-loss event of more than 3M(circle dot), which is large but consistent with other LBV progenitors such as. Carinae.
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