Deep JWST/NIRCam imaging of Supernova 1987A

Author:

Matsuura Mikako1ORCID,Boyer M2,Arendt Richard G34ORCID,Larsson J5ORCID,Fransson C6,Rest A27,Ravi A P8ORCID,Park S8,Cigan P9,Temim T10,Dwek E3,Barlow M J11ORCID,Bouchet P1213,Clayton G14ORCID,Chevalier R15,Danziger J16,De Buizer J17ORCID,De Looze I18ORCID,De Marchi G19,Fox O2ORCID,Gall C20,Gehrz R D21,Gomez H L1,Indebetouw R1522,Kangas T2324ORCID,Kirchschlager F1118ORCID,Kirshner R25,Lundqvist P5ORCID,Marcaide J M26,Martí-Vidal I2627ORCID,Meixner M28,Milisavljevic D2930,Orlando S31ORCID,Otsuka M32ORCID,Priestley F1,Richards A M S33,Schmidt F11,Staveley-Smith L34ORCID,Smith Nathan35ORCID,Spyromilio J36,Vink J373839ORCID,Wang Lifan40,Watson D4142,Wesson R111ORCID,Wheeler J C43ORCID,Woodward C E21,Zanardo G33ORCID,Alp D5,Burrows D44

Affiliation:

1. Cardiff Hub for Astrophysical Research and Technology (CHART), School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University , The Parade, Cardiff CF24 3AA , UK

2. Space Telescope Science Institute , 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218 , USA

3. Observational Cosmology Lab , Code 665, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771 , USA

4. Center for Space Sciences and Technology, University of Maryland , Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21250 , USA

5. Department of Physics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology , The Oskar Klein Centre, AlbaNova, Stockholm SE-106 91 , Sweden

6. Department of Astronomy, Stockholm University , The Oskar Klein Centre, AlbaNova, Stockholm SE-106 91 , Sweden

7. Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University , 366 Bloomberg Center, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218 , USA

8. Department of Physics, University of Texas at Arlington , Box 19059, Arlington, TX 76019 , USA

9. U.S. Naval Observatory , 3450 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC 20392-5420 , USA

10. Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University , Princeton, NJ 08544 , USA

11. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London (UCL) , Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT , UK

12. DRF/IRFU/DAp , CEA-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette , France

13. NRS/AIM, Université Paris Diderot , F-9119, Gif-sur-Yvette , France

14. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University , Baton Rouge, LA 70803 , USA

15. Department of Astronomy , University of Virginia, 530 McCormick Road, Charlottesville, VA 22904 , USA

16. Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste , Via Tiepolo 11, Trieste , Italy

17. SOFIA-USRA, NASA Ames Research Center , Mail Stop 232-12, Moffett Field, CA 94035 , USA

18. Sterrenkundig Observatorium, University of Ghent , Krijgslaan 281 - S9, B-9000 Ghent , Belgium

19. European Space Research and Technology Centre , Keplerlaan 1, NL-2200 AG, Noordwijk , The Netherlands

20. DARK, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen , Jagtvej 128, Copenhagen DK-2200 , Denmark

21. Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics, University of Minnesota , 116 Church Street S. E., Minneapolis, MN 55455 , USA

22. National Radio Astronomy Observatory , 520 Edgemont Road, Charlottesville, 22903, VA , USA

23. Finnish Centre for Astronomy with ESO (FINCA), University of Turku , FI-20014 Turku , Finland

24. Tuorla Observatory, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Turku , FI-20014 Turku , Finland

25. TMT International Observatory , 100 West Walnut Street, Pasadena, CA 91124 , USA

26. Departamento de Astronomía y Astrofísica, Universidad de València , C/Dr Moliner 50, E-46100 Burjassot , Spain

27. Observatori Astronòmic, Universitat de València , C. Catedrático Josè Beltrán 2, E-46980 Paterna, València , Spain

28. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology , 4800 Oak Grove Dr, Pasadena, CA 91109 , USA

29. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University , 525 Northwestern Avenue, West Lafayette, IN 47907 , USA

30. Integrative Data Science Initiative, Purdue University , WestLafayette, IN 47907 , USA

31. Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica-Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo , Piazza del Parlamento 1, I-90134 Palermo , Italy

32. Department of Science, Kyoto University, Asakuchi-shi, Okayama Observatory , Okayama, 719-0232 , Japan

33. JBCA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester , Manchester M13 9PL , UK

34. International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), The University of Western Australia , 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley, WA 6009 , Australia

35. Steward Observatory, University of Arizona , 933 N. Cherry Ave., Tucson, AZ 85721 , USA

36. ESO , Karl-Schwarzschild-Str 2, Garching D-85748 , Germany

37. Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy, University of Amsterdam , Science Park 904, NL-1098 XH Amsterdam , the Netherlands

38. GRAPPA, University of Amsterdam , Science Park 904, NL-1098 XH Amsterdam , the Netherlands

39. SRON, Netherlands Institute for Space Research , Sorbonnelaan 2, NL-3584 CA, Utrecht , the Netherlands

40. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University , College Station, TX 77843 , USA

41. Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN), Københavns Universitet, Rådmandsgade 62 , DK-2200 København , Denmark

42. Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen , Jagtvej 128, Copenhagen DK-2200 , Denmark

43. Department of Astronomy, The University of Texas at Austin , 2515 Speedway, Austin, TX 78712-1205 , USA

44. Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Penn State University , University Park, PA 16802 , USA

Abstract

ABSTRACT JWST/NIRCam obtained high angular resolution (0.05–0.1 arcsec), deep near-infrared 1–5 $\mu$m imaging of Supernova (SN) 1987A taken 35 yr after the explosion. In the NIRCam images, we identify: (1) faint H2 crescents, which are emissions located between the ejecta and the equatorial ring, (2) a bar, which is a substructure of the ejecta, and (3) the bright 3–5 $\mu$m continuum emission exterior to the equatorial ring. The emission of the remnant in the NIRCam 1–2.3 $\mu$m images is mostly due to line emission, which is mostly emitted in the ejecta and in the hotspots within the equatorial ring. In contrast, the NIRCam 3–5 $\mu$m images are dominated by continuum emission. In the ejecta, the continuum is due to dust, obscuring the centre of the ejecta. In contrast, in the ring and exterior to the ring, synchrotron emission contributes a substantial fraction to the continuum. Dust emission contributes to the continuum at outer spots and diffuse emission exterior to the ring, but little within the ring. This shows that dust cooling and destruction time-scales are shorter than the synchrotron cooling time-scale, and the time-scale of hydrogen recombination in the ring is even longer than the synchrotron cooling time-scale. With the advent of high sensitivity and high angular resolution images provided by JWST/NIRCam, our observations of SN 1987A demonstrate that NIRCam opens up a window to study particle-acceleration and shock physics in unprecedented details, probed by near-infrared synchrotron emission, building a precise picture of how an SN evolves.

Funder

NASA

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

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