Upper limits on very-high-energy gamma-ray emission from core-collapse supernovae observed with H.E.S.S.

H. Abdalla , F. Aharonian , F. Ait Benkhali , E. O. Angüner (1) , M. Arakawa , C. Arcaro , C. Armand (2) , H. Ashkar (3) , M. Backes , V. Barbosa Martins , M. Barnard , Y. Becherini , D. Berge , K. Bernlöhr , R. Blackwell , M. Böttcher , C. Boisson (4) , J. Bolmont (5) , S. Bonnefoy , J. Bregeon (6) , M. Breuhaus , F. Brun (3) , P. Brun (3) , M. Bryan (7) , M. Büchele , T. Bulik , T. Bylund , M. Capasso , S. Caroff (5) , A. Carosi (2) , S. Casanova (8) , M. Cerruti (5) , N. Chakraborty (9) , T. Chand , S. Chandra , R. C. G. Chaves (6) , A. Chen , S. Colafrancesco , M. Curylo , I. D. Davids , C. Deil (8) , J. Devin (10) , P. de Wilt , L. Dirson , A. Djannati-Ataï (11) , A. Dmytriiev (4) , A. Donath (8) , V. Doroshenko , L. O’c. Drury , J. Dyks , K. Egberts , G. Emery (5) , J.-P. Ernenwein (1) , S. Eschbach , K. Feijen , S. Fegan (12) , A. Fiasson (2) , G. Fontaine (12) , S. Funk , M. Füssling , S. Gabici (11) , Y. A. Gallant (6) , F. Gaté (2) , G. Giavitto , D. Glawion , J. F. Glicenstein (3) , D. Gottschall , M.-H. Grondin (10) , J. Hahn , M. Haupt , G. Heinzelmann , G. Henri (13) , G. Hermann , J. A. Hinton , W. Hofmann , C. Hoischen , T. L. Holch , M. Holler (14) , D. Horns , D. Huber (15) , H. Iwasaki , M. Jamrozy , D. Jankowsky , F. Jankowsky , I. Jung-Richardt , M. A. Kastendieck , K. Katarzyński , M. Katsuragawa , U. Katz , D. Khangulyan , B. Khélifi (11) , J. King , S. Klepser (16) , W. Kluźniak , Nu. Komin (2) , K. Kosack (3) , D. Kostunin , M. Kraus , G. Lamanna (2) , J. Lau , A. Lemière (11) , M. Lemoine-Goumard (10) , J.-P. Lenain (5) , E. Leser , C. Levy (5) , T. Lohse , R. López-Coto , I. Lypova , J. Mackey , J. Majumdar , D. Malyshev , V. Marandon , Alexandre Marcowith (6) , A. Mares (5) , C. Mariaud (12) , G. Martí-Devesa , R. Marx , G. Maurin (2) , P. J. Meintjes , A. M. W. Mitchell , R. Moderski , M. Mohamed , L. Mohrmann , J. Muller (12) , C. Moore , Emmanuel Moulin (3) , T. Murach , S. Nakashima , M. de Naurois (12) , H. Ndiyavala , F. Niederwanger , J. Niemiec , L. Oakes , P. O’brien , H. Odaka , S. Ohm , E. de Ona Wilhelmi , M. Ostrowski , I. Oya , M. Panter , R. D. Parsons , C. Perennes (5) , P.-O. Petrucci (13) , B. Peyaud (3) , Q. Piel (2) , S. Pita (11) , V. Poireau (2) , A. Priyana Noel , D. A. Prokhorov , H. Prokoph , G. Pühlhofer , M. Punch (11) , A. Quirrenbach , S. Raab , R. Rauth , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , Q. Remy (6) , Matthieu Renaud (6) , F. Rieger (3) , L. Rinchiuso (3) , C. Romoli , G. Rowell (17) , B. Rudak (18) , E. Ruiz-Velasco , V. Sahakian , S. Saito , D. A. Sanchez (2) , A. Santangelo (19) , M. Sasaki , R. Schlickeiser , F. Schüssler (3) , A. Schulz , H. Schutte , U. Schwanke , S. Schwemmer , M. Seglar-Arroyo (3) , M. Senniappan , A. S. Seyffert , N. Shafi , K. Shiningayamwe , R. Simoni , A. Sinha (11) , H. Sol (4) , A. Specovius , M. Spir-Jacob (11) , Ł. Stawarz , R. Steenkamp , C. Stegmann , C. Steppa , T. Takahashi , T. Tavernier (3) , A. M. Taylor , R. Terrier (11) , D. Tiziani , M. Tluczykont , C. Trichard (12) , M. Tsirou (6) , N. Tsuji , R. Tuffs , Y. Uchiyama (20) , D. J. van Der Walt , C. van Eldik , C. van Rensburg , B. van Soelen , George Vasileiadis (6) , J. Veh , C. Venter , P. Vincent (5) , J. Vink , F. Voisin , H. J. Völk , T. Vuillaume (2) , Z. Wadiasingh , S. J. Wagner , R. White , A. Wierzcholska , R. Yang , H. Yoneda , M. Zacharias , R. Zanin (8) , A. A. Zdziarski , A. Zech (4) , A. Ziegler , J. Zorn , N. Żywucka , N. I. Maxted (6)

1 CPPM - Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille
2 LAPP - Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules
3 IRFU - Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers
4 LUTH (UMR_8102) - Laboratoire Univers et Théories
5 LPNHE (UMR_7585) - Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies
6 LUPM - Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier
7 Caltech Department of Astronomy [Pasadena]
8 MPIK - Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik
9 Newcastle University [Newcastle]
10 CENBG - Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan
11 APC (UMR_7164) - AstroParticule et Cosmologie
12 LLR - Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet
13 IPAG - Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble
14 LCM - Laboratoire de chimie moléculaire
15 SIfA - Sydney Institute for Astronomy
16 DESY - Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron [Zeuthen]
17 School of Chemistry and Physics
18 CAMK - Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences
19 IAAT - Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik [Tübingen]
20 SLAC National Accelerator Laborat 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States

Young core-collapse supernovae with dense-wind progenitors may be able to accelerate cosmic-ray hadrons beyond the knee of the cosmic-ray spectrum, and this may result in measurable gamma-ray emission. We searched for gamma-ray emission from ten supernovae observed with the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) within a year of the supernova event. Nine supernovae were observed serendipitously in the H.E.S.S. data collected between December 2003 and December 2014, with exposure times ranging from 1.4 to 53 h. In addition we observed SN 2016adj as a target of opportunity in February 2016 for 13 h. No significant gamma-ray emission has been detected for any of the objects, and upper limits on the >1 TeV gamma-ray flux of the order of ~10−13 cm−2s−1 are established, corresponding to upper limits on the luminosities in the range ~2 × 1039 to ~1 × 1042 erg s−1. These values are used to place model-dependent constraints on the mass-loss rates of the progenitor stars, implying upper limits between ~2 × 10−5 and ~2 × 10−3 M⊙ yr−1 under reasonable assumptions on the particle acceleration parameters.

Keywords: gamma rays: general; supernovae: general; cosmic rays

Domains: Physics [physics]; Astrophysics [astro-ph]

H. Abdalla, F. Aharonian, F. Ait Benkhali, E. O. Angüner, M. Arakawa, et al.. Upper limits on very-high-energy gamma-ray emission from core-collapse supernovae observed with H.E.S.S.. Astronomy and Astrophysics - A&A, 2019, 626, pp.A57. ⟨10.1051/0004-6361/201935242⟩. ⟨cea-02154704⟩