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Hydrogen issue in Core Collapse Supernovae

A. Elmhamdi, I. J. Danziger, D. Branch, B. Leibundgut

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0611182

Abstract

We discuss results of analyzing a time series of selected photospheric-optical spectra of core collapse supernovae (CCSNe). This is accomplished by means of the parameterized supernovae synthetic spectrum (SSp) code ``SYNOW''. Special attention is addressed to traces of hydrogen at early phases, especially for the stripped-envelope SNe (i.e. SNe Ib-c). A thin low mass hydrogen layer extending to very high ejection velocities above the helium shell, is found to be the most likely scenario for Type Ib SNe.

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