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A Spectropolarimetric View on the Nature of the Peculiar Type I SN 2005hk

  • Authors: Justyn R. Maund, J. Craig Wheeler, Lifan Wang, Dietrich Baade, Alejandro Clocchiatti, Ferdinando Patat, Peter Höflich, Jason Quinn, and Paula Zelaya

MAUND et al. 2010 The Astrophysical Journal 722 1162.

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Caption: Figure 9.

Results of Monte Carlo simulations of random obscuring spherical clumps in front of a spherical photosphere. The models are shown for clump scales of R clump/ R , = 0.1 (blue ), 0.2 (red ×), 0.3 (green circle), and 0.4 (black *). Solid lines are for simulations with k = 0.5, while dashed lines indicate simulations with k = 0. The shaded area indicates the permitted values of line polarization, according to Equation (3), for a continuum polarization of 0.36% determined by Chornock et al. (2006). Lower values of the continuum polarization (0.17% determined here) place even stricter upper limits on the scale of clumping. Minor fluctuations in the curves are due to the statistical nature of the Monte Carlo simulations; except for the case of R clump/ R ph = 0.4 for I line/ I cont>0.8, where the results are dominated by the finite size of the "pixels" that compose the model photosphere.

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