Double shell structure in supernova 2024ggi

TL;DR

This paper presents a simple two-shell model for supernova ejecta that explains the evolution of the photospheric radius in SN 2024ggi, supporting the jittering jets explosion mechanism over neutrino-driven models.

Contribution

The study introduces a toy model with a spherical and an elongated shell to reproduce supernova photospheric evolution, favoring the jittering jets explosion mechanism.

Findings

The two-shell model reproduces the observed photospheric radius evolution.

The model explains the transition from concave to convex Rph(t).

Results support the jittering jets explosion mechanism as the primary CCSN driver.

Abstract

We built a simple toy model of a core-collapse supernova (CCSN) ejecta composed of two shells, an outer low-mass spherical shell and an inner elongated massive shell, and show that it can reproduce the evolution of the photospheric radius of SN 2024ggi, Rph(t). During the first week, the larger spherical shell, the S-shell, forms the photosphere. As the shell expands and becomes increasingly transparent, the photosphere moves inward along the mass coordinate, although it grows in size. When the photosphere reaches the long axis of the elongated inner shell, the E-shell begins to contribute to the photosphere, ultimately comprising the entire photosphere. The simple toy model explains the transition of Rph(t) from being concave (decreasing slope) to convex (increasing slope). A single-shell model predicts only concave behavior. The structure of a spherical shell with an inner elongated shell is motivated by the morphologies of several CCSN remnants whose structures have been attributed to multiple pairs of jets in the framework of the jittering jets explosion mechanism (JJEM). The deduced multiple-shell ejecta of SN 2024ggi in this study, and of SN 2023ixf in an earlier study, as well as studies of the polarization of SN 2024ggi, are better compatible with the JJEM than with the neutrino-driven mechanism. Our study supports the growing evidence that the JJEM is the primary explosion mechanism of CCSNe.