Hydrodynamic modeling of Superluminous Supernovae

M. ORELLANA; BERSTEN, M.C; BENVENUTO, O.G.; NOMOTO, K.

Vínculos entre Supernovas y sus Remanentes en Argentina

Workshop; Vínculos entre Supernovas y sus Remanentes en Argentina; 2016

FCAG (UNLP), AAA, CONICET

Recently discovered Superluminous Supernovae (SLSNe) present stimulating cases to explore the extents of the available theoretical models. Various scenarios have been proposed. We simulate magnetar powered SLSNe, i.e. a central rapidly rotating and highly magnetized Neutron star (NS) deposits all its rotational energy into the ejecta where is added to the usual power of the shock wave and radioactive nickel decay. Through radiation hydrodynamic calculations we have tested this case and found physically plausible magnetar parameters can reproduce the overall shape of the bolometric light curve of the brightest supernova ever discovered.