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THE KOREAN 1592-1593 RECORD OF A GUEST STAR: AN ‘IMPOSTOR’ OF THE CASSIOPEIA A SUPERNOVA?
Changbom Park,Sung-Chul Yoon,Bon-Chul Koo 한국천문학회 2016 Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society Vol.49 No.6
The missing historical record of the Cassiopeia A (Cas~A) supernova (SN) event implies a large extinction to the SN, possibly greater than the interstellar extinction to the current SN remnant. Here we investigate the possibility that the guest star that appeared near Cas~A in 1592--1593 in Korean history books could have been an `impostor' of the Cas~A SN, i.e., a luminous transient that appeared to be a SN but did not destroy the progenitor star, with strong mass loss to have provided extra circumstellar extinction. We first review the Korean records and show that a spatial coincidence between the guest star and Cas~A cannot be ruled out, as opposed to previous studies. Based on modern astrophysical findings on core-collapse SN, we argue that Cas~A could have had an impostor and derive its anticipated properties. It turned out that the Cas~A SN impostor must have been bright ($M_V =-14.7, pm 2.2$~mag) and an amount of dust with visual extinction of $, ge 2.8, pm 2.2 $ mag should have formed in the ejected envelope and/or in a strong wind afterwards. The mass loss needs to have been spherically asymmetric in order to see the light echo from the SN event but not the one from the impostor event. The missing historical record of the Cassiopeia A (Cas~A) supernova (SN) event implies a large extinction to the SN, possibly greater than the interstellar extinction to the current SN remnant. Here we investigate the possibility that the guest star that appeared near Cas~A in 1592--1593 in Korean history books could have been an `impostor' of the Cas~A SN, i.e., a luminous transient that appeared to be a SN but did not destroy the progenitor star, with strong mass loss to have provided extra circumstellar extinction. We first review the Korean records and show that a spatial coincidence between the guest star and Cas~A cannot be ruled out, as opposed to previous studies. Based on modern astrophysical findings on core-collapse SN, we argue that Cas~A could have had an impostor and derive its anticipated properties. It turned out that the Cas~A SN impostor must have been bright ($M_V =-14.7 \pm 2.2$~mag) and an amount of dust with visual extinction of $\ge 2.8\pm 2.2 $ mag should have formed in the ejected envelope and/or in a strong wind afterwards. The mass loss needs to have been spherically asymmetric in order to see the light echo from the SN event but not the one from the impostor event.