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The Type II-P Supernova 2019mhm and Constraints on its Progenitor System

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  • J. Vazquez
  • C. D. Kilpatrick
  • G. Dimitriadis
  • R. J. Foley
  • A. L. Piro
  • A. Rest
  • C. Rojas-Bravo
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Article number75
<mark>Journal publication date</mark>1/06/2023
<mark>Journal</mark>The Astrophysical Journal
Issue number2
Volume949
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

We present pre- and postexplosion observations of the Type II-P supernova (SN II-P) 2019mhm located in NGC 6753. Based on optical spectroscopy and photometry, we show that SN 2019mhm exhibits broad lines of hydrogen with a velocity of −8500 ± 200 km s −1 and a 111 ± 2 day extended plateau in its luminosity, typical of the Type II-P subclass. We also fit its late-time bolometric light curve and infer that it initially produced a 56Ni mass of 1.3 × 10 −2 ± 5.5 × 10 −4 M . Using imaging from the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 on the Hubble Space Telescope obtained 19 yr before explosion, we aligned to a postexplosion Wide Field Camera 3 image and demonstrate that there is no detected counterpart to the SN to a limit of >24.53 mag in F814W, corresponding to an absolute magnitude limit of M F814W < −7.7 mag. Comparing to massive-star evolutionary tracks, we determine that the progenitor star had a maximum zero-age main-sequence mass <17.5 M , consistent with other SN II-P progenitor stars. SN 2019mhm can be added to the growing population of SNe II-P with both direct constraints on the brightness of their progenitor stars and well-observed SN properties.