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Early-time spectroscopic modelling of the transitional Type Ia Supernova 2021rhu with TARDIS

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  • Luke Harvey
  • Kate Maguire
  • Mark R. Magee
  • Mattia Bulla
  • Suhail Dhawan
  • Steve Schulze
  • Jesper Sollerman
  • Maxime Deckers
  • Georgios Dimitriadis
  • Simeon Reusch
  • Mathew Smith
  • Jacco Terwel
  • Michael W. Coughlin
  • Frank Masci
  • Josiah Purdum
  • Alexander Reedy
  • Estelle Robert
  • Avery Wold
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<mark>Journal publication date</mark>3/05/2023
<mark>Journal</mark>Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Issue number3
Volume522
Number of pages24
Pages (from-to)4444-4467
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

An open question in SN Ia research is where the boundary lies between 'normal' Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) that are used in cosmological measurements and those that sit off the Phillips relation. We present the spectroscopic modelling of one such '86G-like' transitional SN Ia, SN 2021rhu, that has recently been employed as a local Hubble Constant calibrator using a tip of the red-giant branch measurement. We detail its modelling from -12 d until maximum brightness using the radiative-transfer spectral-synthesis code tardis. We base our modelling on literature delayed-detonation and deflagration models of Chandrasekhar mass white dwarfs, as well as the double-detonation models of sub-Chandrasekhar mass white dwarfs. We present a new method for 'projecting' abundance profiles to different density profiles for ease of computation. Due to the small velocity extent and low outer densities of the W7 profile, we find it inadequate to reproduce the evolution of SN 2021rhu as it fails to match the high-velocity calcium components. The host extinction of SN 2021rhu is uncertain but we use modelling with and without an extinction correction to set lower and upper limits on the abundances of individual species. Comparing these limits to literature models we conclude that the spectral evolution of SN 2021rhu is also incompatible with double-detonation scenarios, lying more in line with those resulting from the delayed detonation mechanism (although there are some discrepancies, in particular a larger titanium abundance in SN 2021rhu compared to the literature). This suggests that SN 2021rhu is likely a lower luminosity, and hence lower temperature, version of a normal SN Ia.