Bibcode
Gorosabel, J.; de Postigo, A. U.; Castro-Tirado, A. J.; Jel'inek, M.; Larionov; Guziy, S.; Augusteijn, T.; Fynbo, J.; Hjorth, J.; Malesani, D.; Xu, D.; Ferrero, P.; Kann, A.; Klose, S.; Rossi, A.; Llorente, A.; Madrid, J. P.
Bibliographical reference
Astronomical Polarimetry 2008: Science from Small to Large Telescopes. Proceedings of a Workshop held at Fairmont Le Manoir Richelieu, La Malbaie, Quebec, Canada 6-11 July 2008. Edited by Pierre Bastien, Nadine Manset, Dan P. Clemens, and Nicole St-Louis. ASP Conference Series, Vol. 449. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2012., p.421
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Description
We present the polarization monitoring carried out for two SNe
associated with GRBs: XRF060218/SN2006aj and XRF080109/SN2008D. For
XRF060218/SN2006aj we measured a mean polarization of P˜4% at
2.6-5.6 days after the X-ray event. This is the highest
polarization value ever measured for a supernova. We derived the
intrinsic polarization of XRF080109/SN2008D, assuming that the last
polarization detection is due to the host galaxy. The resulting
XRF060218/SN2006aj intrinsic polarization decayed as
t-2, similarly as the one reported for SN2004dj. This
decay can be explained by a circularization of the expansion
geometry. Surprisingly the XRF060218/SN2006aj polarization position
angle displayed a ≍ 100° rotation when we compare data taken
before and after the light curve peak. On the other hand,
XRF080109/SN2008D showed polarization values in the range
0.7-1.6%. A statistical analysis of the data distribution on the Stokes
plane strongly suggests that XRF080109/SN2008D showed intrinsic
variable polarization. Assuming that the Ib-type SN2007uy (another SN
simultaneously imaged in the same host of XRF080109/SN2008D) is
constant in the Stokes plane, then the Stokes parameters of XRF080109/
SN2008D evolve approximately on a straight line as expected for an
axisymmetric expansion. These two examples illustrate how to obtain
geometric information without resolving the emitting source.