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THE INFRARED LIGHT CURVE OF SN 2011fe IN M101 AND THE DISTANCE TO M101

2012; IOP Publishing; Volume: 754; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1088/0004-637x/754/1/19

1538-4357

T. Matheson, R. R. Joyce, Lori Allen, Abhijit Saha, David R. Silva, W. M. Wood‐Vasey, Joshua J. Adams, Rachel E. Anderson, Tracy L. Beck, Misty C. Bentz, Matthew A. Bershady, W. S. Binkert, Karen A. Butler, Matthew A. Camarata, Arthur Eigenbrot, Mark E. Everett, J. S. Gallagher, P. Garnavich, Eilat Glikman, Daniel Harbeck, Jonathan R. Hargis, H. Herbst, Elliott P. Horch, Steve B. Howell, Saurabh W. Jha, Jane Kaczmarek, P. M. Knezek, E. R. Manne-Nicholas, Robert D. Mathieu, M. Meixner, Katelyn E. Milliman, J. Power, Jayadev Rajagopal, K. M. Reetz, Katherine L. Rhode, Andrew Schechtman-Rook, Megan E. Schwamb, Heidi Schweiker, Brooke Simmons, Joshua D. Simon, D. L. Summers, Michael D. Young, Anja Weyant, Eric Wilcots, G. Will, D. R. Williams,

Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research

We present near-infrared light curves of supernova (SN) 2011fe in M101, including 34 epochs in H band starting 14 days before maximum brightness in the B band. The light curve data were obtained with the WIYN High-Resolution Infrared Camera. When the data are calibrated using templates of other Type Ia SNe, we derive an apparent H-band magnitude at the epoch of B-band maximum of 10.85 ± 0.04. This implies a distance modulus for M101 that ranges from 28.86 to 29.17 mag, depending on which absolute calibration for Type Ia SNe is used.