Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-10-1992
Publication Title
The Astrophysical Journal
Publisher
The American Astronomical Society
Abstract
We discuss several astrophysical consequences of the detection by OSSE (Kurfess et al. 1992) of 57Co gamma radiation from supernova 1987A. Models with low photoelectric absorption cannot account for both OSSE data and the bolometric luminosity. By burying the alpha-rich-freezeout portion at deeper gamma depths than in published models, we show that it remains barely possible that the bolometric luminosity during days 1200-1800 could derive from 57Co power without requiring 57/56 production ratios greater than twice solar. We illustrate this by slowing the expansion within the inner four solar masses of ejecta in model 10HMM.
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