Document Type

Article

Publication Date

11-10-1992

Publication Title

The Astrophysical Journal

Publisher

The American Astronomical Society

Abstract

We discuss several astrophysical consequences of the detection by OSSE (Kurfess et al. 1992) of 57Co gamma radiation from supernova 1987A. Models with low photoelectric absorption cannot account for both OSSE data and the bolometric luminosity. By burying the alpha-rich-freezeout portion at deeper gamma depths than in published models, we show that it remains barely possible that the bolometric luminosity during days 1200-1800 could derive from 57Co power without requiring 57/56 production ratios greater than twice solar. We illustrate this by slowing the expansion within the inner four solar masses of ejecta in model 10HMM.

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