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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 684, Issue 2, Pages 1343-1350Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1086/589961
Keywords
dust, extinction; supernovae : general; supernovae : individual (SN 2006jc)
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- World Premier International Research Center Initiative (WPI Initiative), MEXT, Japan
- Scientific Research of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [18104003, 18540231, 19740094, 20340038, 20540226, 20540227]
- MEXT [19047004, 20040004]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [19740094, 20340038] Funding Source: KAKEN
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SN 2006jc is a peculiar supernova (SN), in which the formation of dust has been confirmed at an early epoch of similar to 50 days after the explosion. We investigate the possibility of such an early formation of dust grains in the expanding ejecta of SN 2006jc, applying the Type Ib SN model that is developed to reproduce the observed light curve. We find that the rapid decrease of the gas temperature in SN 2006jc enables the condensation of C grains in the C-rich layer at 40-60 days after the explosion, which is followed by the condensation of silicate and oxide grains until similar to 200 days. The average radius of each grain species is confined to be less than 0.01 mu m due to the low gas density at the condensation time. The calculated total dust mass reaches similar or equal to 1.5 M(circle dot), of which C dust shares 0.7 M(circle dot). On the other hand, based on the calculated dust temperature, we show that the dust species and mass evaluated to reproduce the spectral energy distribution observed by AKARI and MAGNUM at day 200 are different from those obtained by the dust formation calculations; the dust species contributing to the observed flux are hot C and FeS grains with masses of 5.6 x 10(-4) and 2.0 x 10(-3) M(circle dot), respectively, although we cannot defy the presence of a large amount of cold dust such as silicate and oxide grains up to 0.5 M(circle dot). One of the physical processes responsible for the difference between calculated and evaluated masses of C and FeS grains could be considered to be the destruction of small-sized clusters by energetic photons and electrons prevailing within the ejecta at the earlier epoch.
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