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1 Light Echoes from Historic Supernovae
Armin Rest (Harvard) SuperMACHO & EHS collaboration

2 Outline Background What are light echoes Light Echoes of SNe SN 87A
SNe in LMC Galactic SNe Future

3 Microlensing alerts ….???? Oct. 2001

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5 The Well-known Light Echoes of SN 1987A!

6 Geometry of Light Echoes
Dust sheet SN 87A Observer

7 Geometry of Light Echoes
Ellipsoids trace out surfaces of constant arrival time Dust sheet 20 year light echoes 20 year ellipse SN 87A what we see SN 87A Observer projected on the sky 10 light-years Extra path: 2 x 10 light years Light echo after 20 years

8 Geometry of Light Echoes
Ellipsoids trace out surfaces of constant arrival time Dust sheets 20 year light echoes 20 year ellipse SN 87A what we see SN 87A Observer projected on the sky 10 light-years Extra path: 2 x 10 light years Light echo after 20 years

9 Geometry of Light Echoes
Ellipsoids trace out surfaces of constant arrival time Dust sheets 22 year ellipse 22 year light echoes 20 year light echoes 20 year ellipse SN 87A what we see SN 87A 1 light-year Observer projected on the sky 10 light-years Extra path: 2 x 10 light years Light echo after 20 years Extra path: 2 x 11 light years Light echo after 22 years

10 Geometry of Light Echoes
SuperMACHO difference image, 22 year light echoes 20 year light echoes

11 SN 87A Light Echoes with NN2 Difference Imaging (each season combined and smoothed)
Newman & Rest, in preparation Xu, Crotts, & Kunkel (1995)

12 The Outer Light Echo Ring of SN 87A
(Newman & Rest, in preparation)

13 87A light echo Spectra (Gemini-S) Sinnott et al., In preparation

14 3D spectroscopic view of SN 87A
2006 Red: observed light echo spectrum Black: integrated SN 87 spectrum Sinnott et al., in preparation 3D spectroscopic view of SN 87A Sinnott et al., in preparation 40 degree cone

15 Light Echoes from a source other than SN 1987A?

16 Light Echoes from Ancient Supernovae in the LMC
Rest et. al., 2005, Nature, 438, 1132 Three distinct light echo groups Apparent proper motion: between 0.7c and 1.8c R magnitudes between and 24.0 LE2 LE3 LE1 SN 87A real age: 14.8 87A

17 Light Echoes from Ancient Supernovae in the LMC
Rest et. al., 2005, Nature, 438, 1132 Three distinct light echo groups Apparent proper motion: between 0.7c and 1.8c R magnitudes between and 24.0 LE2 LE3 LE1 SN 87A real age: 14.8 87A LE3 LE2 LE1 Hughes et. al. (1995)

18 Overluminous SNe Ia correlating best with LE2 spectra
Rest et. al., ApJ, 2008 Overluminous SN Ia

19 The Type of SNR Rest et. al., 2008, ApJ, 680 Badenes et. al., 2008, ApJ, 680 Light echo spectrum: The SN of SNR was an overluminous SN Ia with a Dm15<0.9 X-Ray spectrum of SNR : Hydrodynamic non-equilibrium ionization models favor bright, highly energetic SN Ia Rosetta stone for SN: First time the origin event of a SNR is directly determined, placing stringent constraints on the explosion mechanism and hence on the interpretation of X-ray spectra of the remnant

20 IR echoes of Cas A Krause et al. 2005: Spitzer IR echoes
Apparent motion: v = 0.7c Claim: observed IR echo apparent motion evidence for X-ray flare in days Need strong magnitic field Magnetar

21 IR echoes of Cas A Krause et al. 2005:
If Cas A SN source: angle of incidence of the heating flash relative to plane of sky ~75 degree. Therefore: much smaller apparent motion than observed Cas A SN can’t be source of IR echoes Observer Observer Cas A Cas A

22 IR echoes of Cas A Mythbuster:
Krause et al. 2005: If Cas A SN source: angle of incidence of the heating flash relative to plane of sky ~75 degree. Therefore: much smaller apparent motion than observed Cas A SN can’t be source of IR echoes Mythbuster: There has never been any evidence based on light echoes indicating that the Cas A remnant hosts a magnetar Observer Observer Cas A Cas A

23 Light Echoes of Galactic SNe
KPNO Mosaic imager 200 fields 12 light echo candidate groups Surfave brightness V~24mag/arcsec2 Rest et al., 2008, ApJL, 681

24 Tycho SN (1572) and Cas A (1680) Rest et al., 2008, ApJL, 681

25 Tycho SN (1572) and Cas A (1680) Krause et al. 2009
Rest et al., 2008, ApJL, 681

26 Cas A 3-D spectroscopic view
Tycho SN (1572) and Cas A (1680) Cas A 3-D spectroscopic view Rest et al, 2009, in preparation Rest et al., 2008, ApJL, 681

27 Tycho SN (1572) and Cas A (1680) Krause et al, 2008
Rest et al., 2008, ApJL, 681

28 Galactic SNe light echoes: Future surveys
7 known SNe in last years PanSTARRS, Skymapper, LSST, …. Visual inspection not possible! New detection package needed Not centrally peaked like stars/galaxies Low surface brightness, but 10s or arcsec wide/long SN name Date Type Cas A 1680 AD? SN Ib? Kepler 1604 AD SN Ia/b? Tycho 1572 AD SN Ia SN 1181 1181 AD ? SN 1006 1006 AD Crab Nebula 1054 AD SN II RCW 86 0185 AD SN II? Armin Rest, 06/02/09, UW

29 Conclusions Light echoes from SNe are visible 100s of years
3-D dust structure Typing of ancient SN based on light echo spectrum (SNR , Cas A, Tycho) Rosetta stone! 3D spectroscopic view of SNe possible! Asymmetries! PanSTARRS, LSST, Skymapper: possibility to find light echoes of more SNe Armin Rest, 06/02/09, UW

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31 Normal SNe Ia Normal SN Ia Armin Rest, 06/02/09, UW
Armin Rest, 03/12/08, Wunch Rest et. al., ApJ, 2008 Normal SN Ia Armin Rest, 06/02/09, UW

32 Normal SNe Ic Normal SN Ic Armin Rest, 06/02/09, UW
Armin Rest, 03/12/08, Wunch Rest et. al., ApJ, 2008 Normal SN Ic Armin Rest, 06/02/09, UW

33 Under-luminous SNe Ia and other SN Ibc
Armin Rest, 03/12/08, Wunch Rest et. al., ApJ, 2008 Other SN Ia and Ib/c Armin Rest, 06/02/09, UW

34 Tycho SN (1572) and Cas A (1680) Tycho Brahe
Rest et al., 2008, ApJL, 681

35 The Outer Light Echo Ring of SN 87A
(Newman & Rest, in preparation) Distance in SN foreground (z) in pc Position angle in degree Armin Rest, 06/02/09, UW


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