Properties of high-redshift Type II supernovae discovered by the JADES transient survey

Takashi J. Moriya; David A. Coulter; Christa DeCoursey; Justin D.R. Pierel; Kevin Hainline; Matthew R. Siebert; Armin Rest; Eiichi Egami; Sebastian Gomez; Robert M. Quimby; Ori D. Fox; Michael Engesser; Fengwu Sun; Wenlei Chen; Yossef Zenati; Suvi Gezari; Bhavin A. Joshi; Melissa Shahbandeh; Louis Gregory Strolger; Qinan Wang; Stacey Alberts; Rachana Bhatawdekar; Andrew J. Bunker; Pierluigi Rinaldi; Brant E. Robertson; Sandro Tacchella

doi:10.1093/pasj/psaf052

Properties of high-redshift Type II supernovae discovered by the JADES transient survey

Takashi J. Moriya
, David A. Coulter
, Christa DeCoursey
, Justin D.R. Pierel
, Kevin Hainline
, Matthew R. Siebert
, Armin Rest
, Eiichi Egami
, Sebastian Gomez
, Robert M. Quimby
, Ori D. Fox
, Michael Engesser
, Fengwu Sun
, Wenlei Chen
, Yossef Zenati
, Suvi Gezari
, Bhavin A. Joshi
, Melissa Shahbandeh
, Louis Gregory Strolger
, Qinan Wang

Stacey Alberts, Rachana Bhatawdekar, Andrew J. Bunker, Pierluigi Rinaldi, Brant E. Robertson, Sandro Tacchella

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Abstract

In this work we estimate the explosion and progenitor properties of six Type II supernovae (SNe) at (Formula presented) discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES) transient survey by modeling their light curves. Two Type II SNe are found to have high explosion energies of (Formula presented) erg, while the other four Type II SNe are estimated to have typical explosion energies found in the local Universe [(0.5–2) (Formula presented) (Formula presented) erg]. The fraction of Type II SNe with high explosion energies might be higher at high redshifts because of, e.g., lower metallicity, but it is still difficult to draw a firm conclusion because of the small sample size and potential observational biases. We found it difficult to constrain the progenitor masses for Type II SNe in our sample because of the sparse light-curve data. We found that two Type II SN light curves can be better reproduced by introducing confined, dense circumstellar matter. Thus, the confined, dense circumstellar matter frequently observed in nearby Type II SNe is likely to exist in Type II SNe at high redshifts as well. Two Type II SNe are estimated to have high host galaxy extinctions, showing the ability of JWST to discover dust-obscured SNe at high redshifts. More high-redshift Type II SNe are required to investigate the differences in the properties of Type II SNe near and far, but here we show the first glimpse into the high-redshift population of Type II SNe.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	851-862
Number of pages	12
Journal	Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
Volume	77
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/pasj/psaf052
State	Published - Aug 2025
Externally published	Yes

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Keywords

stars: massive
supernovae: general
supernovae: individual (AT 2023adsv, AT 2023adte, AT 2023adtf, SN 2023adto, SN 2023adtu, AT 2023adtw)

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Moriya, T. J., Coulter, D. A., DeCoursey, C., Pierel, J. D. R., Hainline, K., Siebert, M. R., Rest, A., Egami, E., Gomez, S., Quimby, R. M., Fox, O. D., Engesser, M., Sun, F., Chen, W., Zenati, Y., Gezari, S., Joshi, B. A., Shahbandeh, M., Strolger, L. G., ... Tacchella, S. (2025). Properties of high-redshift Type II supernovae discovered by the JADES transient survey. Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 77(4), 851-862. https://doi.org/10.1093/pasj/psaf052

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