Light from a Dying Star: Explosions Close to the Stellar Surface
Almog Yalinewich
AAS meeting
iPTF14hls
Arcavi et al. 2017
distance ~150 Mpc
Déjà Vu
\mathcal{M}_r @ {\rm 0.1 \,y} = -15.6 \Rightarrow L \approx 10^{41} \rm erg/s
Arcavi et al. 2017
Precursor
Arcavi et al. 2017
Bright Future
Common Envelope Jet Supernova
1954
2014
2015
2016
Soker & Gilkis 2017
Our Model - Surface Explosion
https://github.com/bolverk/huji-rich
Lightcurve
1954 event
Yalinewich & Matzner 2019
Temperature
1954 event
Summary
1954 event
We develop a theoretical model for the observational signature of a common envelope surface explosion
These signals can serve as a precursor to a supernova
Prospect for future detection with LSST