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    The Unification of Asymmetry Signatures of Type Ia Supernovae

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    2010-12
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    Maund, Justyn R.
    Hoflich, Peter
    Patat, Ferdinando
    Wheeler, J. Craig
    Zelaya, P.
    Baade, Dietrich
    Wang, Lifan
    Clocchiatti, Alejandro
    Quinn, Jason
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    Abstract
    We present a compilation of the geometry measures acquired using optical and IR spectroscopy and optical spectropolarimetry to probe the explosion geometry of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). Polarization measurements are sensitive to asymmetries in the plane of the sky, whereas line profiles in nebular phase spectra are expected to trace asymmetries perpendicular to the plane of the sky. The combination of these two measures can overcome their respective projection effects, completely probing the structures of these events. For nine normal SNe Ia, we find that the polarization of Si II lambda 6355 at 5 days before maximum (p(Si II)) is well correlated with its velocity evolution ((v) over dot(Si II)), implying that (v) over dot(Si II) is predominantly due to the asymmetry of the SNe. We find only a weak correlation between the polarization of Si II and the reported velocities (v(neb)) for peak emission of optical Fe II and Ni II lines in nebular spectra. Our sample is biased, with polarization measurements being only available for normal SNe that subsequently exhibited positive (i.e., redshifted) v(neb). In unison these indicators are consistent with an explosion in which the outer layers are dominated by a spherical oxygen layer, mixed with an asymmetric distribution of intermediate-mass elements. The combination of spectroscopic and spectropolarimetric indicators suggests a single geometric configuration for normal SNe Ia, with some of the diversity of observed properties arising from orientation effects.
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    Astronomy
    Subject
    supernovae: general
    techniques: polarimetric
    techniques: spectroscopic
    delayed detonation
    sn 1999by
    spectropolarimetry
    explosion
    diversity
    spectra
    models
    spectroscopy
    asphericity
    1991bg
    astronomy & astrophysics
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    http://hdl.handle.net/2152/43035
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    Maund, Justyn R., H. Peter, Ferdinando Patat, J. Craig Wheeler, Paula Zelaya, Dietrich Baade, Lifan Wang, Alejandro Clocchiatti, and Jason Quinn. "The Unification of Asymmetry Signatures of Type Ia Supernovae." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Vol. 725, No. 2 (Dec., 2010): L167.
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