2025/08/25 by Yamanaka, Masayuki, Nagayama, Takahiro
#Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA) #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) #Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2508.17582
We present near-infrared (NIR) and optical observations and analysis of the Type Ibn/Icn supernova (SN) 2023xgo, spanning the period from two days to 100 days past explosion. A comparison of the NIR light curves and color evolution with those of other Type Ibn SNe reveals prominent NIR excess persisting from 15 to 100 days. The spectral energy distribution (SED) is well explained by a combination of a hot blackbody component and a carbon dust model. The dust temperature remained relatively constant at T=1600±100 K up to t=60 d. The estimated dust mass is ∼1.2 ×10-4~M\odot. Based on the SN emission of 1042 erg s-1 at peak luminosity, the evaporation radius is estimated to be 1.2×1016 cm, consistent with the expectation from light travel time. The dust shell is located outside the shocked cool dense shell (CDS) at the position of 7.6×1014 cm. It suggests that the observed NIR excess originates from pre-existing circumstellar (CS) dust. Considering a typical dust-to-gas mass ratio, the CS gas mass is estimated to be ≃10-2~M\odot, implying a high mass-loss rate of ∼0.1~M\odot yr-1 from either a low-mass helium star progenitor with a binary interaction, or may be a massive Wolf-Rayet star that experienced a significant eruption.