Bibcode
Xi, Qiang; Sun, Ning-Chen; Aguado, David; Pérez-Fournon, Ismael; Poidevin, Frédérick; Jin, Junjie; Mao, Yiming; Niu, Zexi; Wang, Beichuan; Zhang, Yu; Misra, Kuntal; Janghel, Divyanshu; Maund, Justyn R.; Kumar, Amit; Tinyanont, Samaporn; Liu, Liang-Duan; Zhang, Yu-Hao; Ailawadhi, Bhavya; Dubey, Monalisa; Guo, Zhen; Gupta, Anshika; He, Min; Jain, Dhruv; Kar, Debalina; Li, Wenxiong; Lyman, Joe D.; Mu, Haiyang; Pranshu, Kumar; Sun, Xinxiang; Wang, Lingzhi; Yadav, Sarvesh Kumar; Zhao, Yi-Han; Zheng, Jie; Zhu, Yinan; López Fernández-Nespral, David; López Oramas, Alicia; Wang, Yanan; Wiersema, Klaas; Liu, Jifeng
Referencia bibliográfica
The Astrophysical Journal
Fecha de publicación:
2
2026
Revista
Número de citas
1
Número de citas referidas
0
Descripción
SN 2024aecx is a nearby (∼11 Mpc) Type IIb SN discovered within ∼1 day after explosion. In this paper we report high-cadence photometric (typically 0.5 ∼ 1 day) and spectroscopic follow-up observations, conducted from as early as 0.27 day post discovery out to the nebular phase at 158.4 days. We analyze the environment of SN 2024aecx and derive a new distance (11.3 ± 1.1 Mpc), metallicity and host extinction. The light curve exhibits a hot and luminous shock-cooling peak at the first few days, followed by a main peak with very rapid postmaximum decline. The earliest spectra are blue and featureless, while from 2.3 days after discovery prominent P-Cygni profiles emerge. At nebular phase, the emission lines exhibit asymmetric and double-peaked profiles, indicating asphericity and/or early dust formation in the ejecta. Nebular spectral modelling indicates a blueshifted O-rich clump moving toward observer, and the [O I]/[Ca II] line ratio suggests an intermediate-mass progenitor. We simulated the progenitor and explosion using a two-component model of shock cooling and radioactive 56Ni heating; our model favors an extended, low-mass H-rich envelope with Me = 0.04 ± 0.01 M⊙ and a low ejecta mass of Mej=1.55−0.14+0.18M⊙ . And the nebular-phase spectra and light-curve modelling both suggest that it most likely originated from an intermediate-mass binary progenitor system. The comprehensive monitoring of SN 2024aecx, coupled with the detailed characterization of its local environment, establishes it as a benchmark event for probing the progenitors and explosion mechanisms of Type IIb SNe.