Bibcode
Ruiz-Lapuente, P.; Damiani, Francesco; Bedin, Luigi; González Hernández, J. I.; Galbany, Lluís; Pritchard, John; Canal, Ramon; Méndez, Javier
Bibliographical reference
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 862, Issue 2, article id. 124, 13 pp. (2018).
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Description
We have surveyed Kepler’s supernova remnant in search of the
companion star of the explosion. We have gone as deep as 2.6 L
⊙ in all stars within 20% of the radius of the remnant.
We use FLAMES at the VLT-UT2 telescope to obtain high-resolution spectra
of the stellar candidates selected from Hubble Space Telescope (HST)
images. The resulting set of stellar parameters suggests that these
stars come from a rather ordinary mixture of field stars (mostly
giants). A few of the stars seem to have low [Fe/H] (<-1) and
they are consistent with being metal-poor giants. The radial velocities
and rotational velocities v rot sin i are very well
determined. There are no fast rotating stars because v rot
sin i < 20 km s-1 for all the candidates. The radial
velocities from the spectra and the proper motions determined from HST
images are compatible with those expected from the Besançon model
of the Galaxy. The strong limits placed on luminosity suggest that this
supernova could have arisen either from the core-degenerate scenario or
from the double-degenerate scenario.