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    SN 2008In-Bridging The Gap Between Normal And Faint Supernovae Of Type IIp
    (2011-08) Roy, Rupak; Kumar, Brijesh; Benetti, Stefano; Pastorello, Andrea; Yuan, Fang; Brown, Peter J.; Immler, Stefan; Fatkhullin, Timur A.; Moskvitin, Alexander S.; Maund, Justyn; Akerlof, Carl W.; Wheeler, J. Craig; Sokolov, Vladimir V.; Quimby, Rorbert M.; Bufano, Filomena; Kumar, Brajesh; Misra, Kuntal; Pandey, S. B.; Elias-Rosa, Nancy; Roming, Peter W. A.; Sagar, Ram; Wheeler, J. Craig
    We present optical photometric and low-resolution spectroscopic observations of the Type II plateau supernova (SN) 2008in, which occurred in the outskirts of the nearly face-on spiral galaxy M61. Photometric data in the X-ray, ultraviolet, and near-infrared bands have been used to characterize this event. The SN field was imaged with the ROTSE-IIIb optical telescope about seven days before the explosion. This allowed us to constrain the epoch of the shock breakout to JD = 2454825.6. The duration of the plateau phase, as derived from the photometric monitoring, was similar to 98 days. The spectra of SN 2008in show a striking resemblance to those of the archetypal low-luminosity IIP SNe 1997D and 1999br. A comparison of ejecta kinematics of SN 2008in with the hydrodynamical simulations of Type IIP SNe by Dessart et al. indicates that it is a less energetic event (similar to 5 x 10(50) erg). However, the light curve indicates that the production of radioactive 56Ni is significantly higher than that in the low-luminosity SNe. Adopting an interstellar absorption along the SN direction of AV similar to 0.3 mag and a distance of 13.2Mpc, we estimated a synthesized 56Ni mass of similar to 0.015 M-circle dot. Employing semi-analytical formulae derived by Litvinova and Nadezhin, we derived a pre-SN radius of similar to 126R(circle dot), an explosion energy of similar to 5.4x10(50) erg, and a total ejected mass of similar to 16.7M(circle dot). The latter indicates that the zero-age main-sequence mass of the progenitor did not exceed 20M(circle dot). Considering the above properties of SN 2008in and its occurrence in a region of sub-solar metallicity ([O/H] similar to 8.44 dex), it is unlikely that fall-back of the ejecta onto a newly formed black hole occurred in SN 2008in. We therefore favor a low-energy explosion scenario of a relatively compact, moderate-mass progenitor star that generates a neutron star.