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Late-time Spectral Observations of Type IIP Supernovae

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2016

Jeffrey M. Silverman
Affiliation:
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States email: jsilverman@astro.as.utexas.edu
Stephanie Pickett
Affiliation:
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States email: jsilverman@astro.as.utexas.edu
J. Craig Wheeler
Affiliation:
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States email: jsilverman@astro.as.utexas.edu
Alexei V. Filippenko
Affiliation:
University of California - Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
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We are analysing late-time (older than about 150 d past explosion) optical spectra of Type II-Plateau (IIP) supernovae (SNe), which are H-rich SNe that come from red supergiant (RSG) progenitors. The dataset includes nearly 100 spectra of about 40 objects, making this the largest sample of SN IIP nebular spectra ever investigated. Quantitative criteria from within the spectra themselves are employed to determine if an observation is truly nebular, and thus should be included in the study. We present the temporal evolution of the fluxes, shapes, and velocities of various emission lines (see, for example, Fig. 1). These measured values are also compared to photometric data in order to search for correlations that can allow us to gain insight into the diversity of RSG progenitors and learn more about the details of the explosion itself.

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