Common envelope jets supernova with thermonuclear outburst progenitor for the enigmatic supernova remnant W49B

Abstract

ABSTRACT We suggest a common envelope jets supernova (CEJSN) origin to the supernova remnant (SNR) W49B where jets launched by a neutron star (NS) that collapsed to a black hole (BH) together with a thermonuclear outburst of the disrupted red super giant’s (RGS’s) core powered and shaped the ejecta. The jets account for the highly non-spherical morphology of W49B and the thermonuclear outburst to its high iron abundance. CEJSNe are violent events powered by jets that a NS or a BH launch as they orbit inside a red supergiant star and accrete mass from its envelope and then from its core. We classify the CEJSN process to either a case where the NS/BH enters the core to form a common envelope evolution (CEE) inside the core or to a case where the NS/BH tidally disrupts the core. In the later case, the core material forms an accretion disc around the NS that might experience a thermonuclear outburst, leading to an energetic event powered by both jets and thermonuclear burning. We term this scenario thermonuclear CEJSN. We find that the maximum core mass that leads to this scenario with a NS is 2 M⊙ ≲ Mcore ≲ 3.5 M⊙. We estimate the event rates of CEJSN that go through tidal disruption of the core by a NS to be 5 per 1000 core collapse supernovae.