The SN Ia runaway LP 398-9: detection of circumstellar material and surface rotation

Author:

Chandra Vedant12ORCID,Hwang Hsiang-Chih23ORCID,Zakamska Nadia L23ORCID,Blouin Simon45ORCID,Swan Andrew6ORCID,Marsh Thomas R7ORCID,Shen Ken J8ORCID,Gänsicke Boris T7ORCID,Hermes J J9ORCID,Putterman Odelia9ORCID,Bauer Evan B1ORCID,Petrosky Evan210ORCID,Dhillon Vikram S1112ORCID,Littlefair Stuart P11ORCID,Ashley Richard P713ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Center for Astrophysics ∣ Harvard & Smithsonian , 60 Garden St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

2. Department of Physics & Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University , 3400 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA

3. Institute for Advanced Study , Einstein Drive, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA

4. Los Alamos National Laboratory , PO Box 1663, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA

5. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria , Victoria, BC V8W 2Y2, Canada

6. Department of Physics & Astronomy, University College London , Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK

7. Department of Physics, University of Warwick , Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK

8. Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Astrophysics Center, University of California , Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

9. Department of Astronomy & Institute for Astrophysical Research, Boston University , 725 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA 02215, USA

10. Department of Physics, University of Michigan , 450 Church St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA

11. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield , Sheffield S3 7RH, UK

12. Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias , E-38205 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain

13. Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes , Apartado de Correos 321, Santa Cruz de La Palma, E-38700, Spain

Abstract

ABSTRACT A promising progenitor scenario for Type Ia supernovae (SNeIa) is the thermonuclear detonation of a white dwarf in a close binary system with another white dwarf. After the primary star explodes, the surviving donor can be spontaneously released as a hypervelocity runaway. One such runaway donor candidate is LP 398-9, whose orbital trajectory traces back ≈105 yr to a known supernova remnant. Here, we report the discovery of carbon-rich circumstellar material around LP 398-9, revealed by a strong infrared excess and analysed with follow-up spectroscopy. The circumstellar material is most plausibly composed of inflated layers from the star itself, mechanically and radioactively heated by the past companion’s supernova. We also detect a 15.4 h periodic signal in the UV and optical light curves of LP 398-9, which we interpret as surface rotation. The rotation rate is consistent with theoretical predictions from this supernova mechanism, and the brightness variations could originate from surface inhomogeneity deposited by the supernova itself. Our observations strengthen the case for this double-degenerate SNIa progenitor channel, and motivate the search for more runaway SNIa donors.

Funder

Harvard University

Johns Hopkins University

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Institute for Advanced Study

Laboratory Directed Research and Development

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Government of Canada

Science and Technology Facilities Council

European Research Council

European Space Agency

Space Telescope Science Institute

Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales

Ministry of Science and Technology

University of California

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

California Institute of Technology

National Science Foundation

Caltech

Stockholm University

University of Maryland

University of Washington

Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

Space and Planetary Science,Astronomy and Astrophysics

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