The morphology of the ejecta of SN 1987A at 31 yr from 1150 to 10 000 Å

  • T Kangas
    Department of Physics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, The Oskar Klein Centre, AlbaNova, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
  • C Fransson
    Department of Astronomy, Stockholm University, The Oskar Klein Centre, AlbaNova, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
  • J Larsson
    Department of Physics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, The Oskar Klein Centre, AlbaNova, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
  • K France
    Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, 600 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
  • R A Chevalier
    Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia, PO Box 400325, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4325, USA
  • R P Kirshner
    Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
  • P Lundqvist
    Department of Astronomy, Stockholm University, The Oskar Klein Centre, AlbaNova, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
  • S Mattila
    Tuorla Observatory, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Turku, FI-20014 Turku, Finland
  • J Sollerman
    Department of Astronomy, Stockholm University, The Oskar Klein Centre, AlbaNova, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
  • V P Utrobin
    NRC ‘Kurchatov Institute’ – Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, B. Cheremushkinskaya St 25, 117218 Moscow, Russia

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<jats:title>ABSTRACT</jats:title> <jats:p>We present spectroscopy of the ejecta of SN 1987A in 2017 and 2018 from the Hubble Space Telescope and the Very Large Telescope, covering the wavelength range between 1150 and $10\, 000$ Å. At 31 yr, this is the first epoch with coverage over the ultraviolet-to-near-infrared range since 1995. We create velocity maps of the ejecta in the H α, Mg ii λλ2796, 2804 and [O i] λλ6302, 6366 (vacuum) emission lines and study their morphology. All three lines have a similar morphology, but Mg ii is blueshifted by ∼1000 km s−1 relative to the others and stronger in the north-west. We also study the evolution of the line fluxes, finding a brightening by a factor of ∼9 since 1999 in Mg ii, while the other line fluxes are similar in 1999 and 2018. We discuss implications for the power sources of emission lines at late times: thermal excitation due to heating by the X-rays from the ejecta–ring interaction is found to dominate the ultraviolet Mg ii lines, while the infrared Mg ii doublet is powered mainly by Ly α fluorescence. The X-ray deposition is calculated based on merger models of SN 1987A. Far-ultraviolet emission lines of H2 are not detected. Finally, we examine the combined spectrum of recently discovered hotspots outside the equatorial ring. Their unresolved Balmer emission lines close to zero velocity are consistent with the interaction of fast ejecta and a clumpy, slowly moving outflow. A clump of emission in this spectrum, south of the equatorial ring at ∼1500 km s−1, is likely associated with the reverse shock.</jats:p>

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