A possible feedback mechanism of outflows from a black hole hyperaccretion disk in the center of jet-driven iPTF14hls

TL;DR

This paper proposes that outflows from black hole hyperaccretion disks in core-collapse supernovae can regulate accretion and produce long-lasting, variable luminosity, explaining the peculiar light curve of supernova iPTF14hls.

Contribution

It introduces a feedback mechanism involving outflows from black hole accretion disks that can account for the extended and fluctuating light curves of certain supernovae.

Findings

Outflows prolong accretion timescales in collapsar models.

Feedback from outflows can cause long-duration, variable supernova luminosity.

Double-peak light curves may result from outflow feedback mechanisms.

Abstract

iPTF14hls is an unusually bright, long-lived II-P supernova (SN), whose light curve has at least five peaks. We propose that the outflows from the black hole hyperaccretion systems in the center of the collapsars should continuously inject into the envelope. For a jet-driven core-collapsar model, the outflow feedback results in prolonging the accretion timescale and fluctuating accretion rates in our analytic solutions. Thus, the long period of luminous, varying SN iPTF14hls might originate from the choked jets, which are regulated by the feedback of the strong disk outflows in a massive core-collapsar. One can expect that jet-driven iPTF14hls may last no more than approximately 3,000 days, and the luminosity may quickly decrease in the later stages. Moreover, the double-peak light curves in some SNe might be explained by the outflow feedback mechanism.