TY - JOUR
T1 - The progenitor of the type II-P sn 2004dj in ngc 2403
AU - Maíz-Apellániz, J.
AU - Bond, Howard E.
AU - Siegel, M. H.
AU - Lipkin, Y.
AU - Maoz, D.
AU - Ofek, E. O.
AU - Poznanski, D.
N1 - Funding Information:
4The Space Telescope Science Institute is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under NASA contract NAS5-26555.
Funding Information:
We would like to thank Nolan Walborn for helpful discussions; Leonardo Úbeda for help with evolutionary tracks; and the referee, Stephen Smartt, for very helpful suggestions and for communicating results in advance of publication. H. E. B. acknowledges support from the NASA UV, Visible, and Gravitational Astrophysics Research and Analysis Program through grant NAG5-3912. D. M. acknowledges support by the Israel Science Foundation–the Jack Adler Foundation for Space Research, grant 63/01-1.
Funding Information:
2Visiting Astronomer, Kitt Peak National Observatory, National Optical Astronomy Observatory, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation.
PY - 2004/11/10
Y1 - 2004/11/10
N2 - The Type II-P supernova SN 2004dj in the nearby galaxy NGC 2403 occurred at a position coincident with object 96 in the list of luminous stars and clusters in this galaxy published by Sandage in 1984. The coincidence is established definitively through astrometric registration of our ground-based archival images of NGC 2403 with our recent images showing the SN. The archival images show that Sandage 96 is slightly resolved from the ground. Preoutburst blue spectrograms obtained by Humphreys & Aaronson reveal that Sandage 96 has a composite spectrum, dominated in the blue region by A- and B-type stars, while infrared photometry shows that Sandage 96 also contains red supergiants. These results demonstrate that Sandage 96 is a young compact cluster. We have studied the stellar population of Sandage 96, using published photometric measurements combined with a X2 fitting code. We derive a cluster age of 13.6 Myr, a reddening of E(4405 - 5495) = 0.172, and a total stellar mass of 24,000 Mθ. For this cluster age, the SN progenitor had a main-sequence mass of 15 Mθ. Postoutburst photometry of Sandage 96 may establish whether the progenitor was a red or blue supergiant.
AB - The Type II-P supernova SN 2004dj in the nearby galaxy NGC 2403 occurred at a position coincident with object 96 in the list of luminous stars and clusters in this galaxy published by Sandage in 1984. The coincidence is established definitively through astrometric registration of our ground-based archival images of NGC 2403 with our recent images showing the SN. The archival images show that Sandage 96 is slightly resolved from the ground. Preoutburst blue spectrograms obtained by Humphreys & Aaronson reveal that Sandage 96 has a composite spectrum, dominated in the blue region by A- and B-type stars, while infrared photometry shows that Sandage 96 also contains red supergiants. These results demonstrate that Sandage 96 is a young compact cluster. We have studied the stellar population of Sandage 96, using published photometric measurements combined with a X2 fitting code. We derive a cluster age of 13.6 Myr, a reddening of E(4405 - 5495) = 0.172, and a total stellar mass of 24,000 Mθ. For this cluster age, the SN progenitor had a main-sequence mass of 15 Mθ. Postoutburst photometry of Sandage 96 may establish whether the progenitor was a red or blue supergiant.
KW - Galaxies: Individual (NGC 2403)
KW - Galaxies: Star clusters
KW - Supernovae: General
KW - Supernovae: Individual (SN 2004dj)
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U2 - 10.1086/426120
DO - 10.1086/426120
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AN - SCOPUS:11144315540
VL - 615
SP - L113-L116
JO - Astrophysical Journal
JF - Astrophysical Journal
SN - 0004-637X
IS - 2 II
ER -