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PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC
卷 118, 期 841, 页码 351-357出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1086/500225
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We confirm the discovery of a light echo around the Type II-plateau supernova 2003gd in Messier 74 ( NGC 628), seen in images obtained with the High Resolution Channel of the Advanced Camera for Surveys on board the Hubble Space Telescope ( HST) as part of a larger Snapshot program on the late-time emission from supernovae. The analysis of the echo we present suggests that it is due to the SN light pulse scattered by a sheet of dust grains located similar to 113 pc in front of the SN, and that these grains are not unlike those assumed to be in the diffuse Galactic interstellar medium, both in composition and in size distribution. The echo is less consistent with scattering off carbon-rich grains, and if anything, the grains may be somewhat more silicate rich than the Galactic dust composition. The echo also appears to be more consistent with a SN distance closer to 7 Mpc than to 9 Mpc. This further supports the conclusion we reached elsewhere that the initial mass for the SN progenitor was relatively low (similar to 8-9 M-circle dot). The HST should be used to continue to monitor the echo in several bands, particularly in the blue, to better constrain its origin.
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