Chandra Detection of SN2020bvc
ATel #13509; Anna Y. Q. Ho (Caltech), Brad Cenko (UMd/Goddard), Daniel Perley (LJMU), Alessandra Corsi (TTU), Murray Brightman (Caltech)
on 20 Feb 2020; 18:05 UT
Credential Certification: Anna Ho (ah@astro.caltech.edu)
Subjects: X-ray, Gamma-Ray Burst, Supernovae
Referred to by ATel #: 13510
On 2020-02-16 UT we obtained a 10ks Chandra observation of the radio-loud Ic-BL SN2020bvc (Astronote #2020-37, ATEL #13496) under Director's Discretionary Time (Obs ID 23171; PI Ho). We reduced the data and fit the spectrum using CIAO (Fruscione 2006) assuming a power-law source model. The source is detected with a flux of approximately 1E-14 erg/cm2/s, corresponding to a luminosity of 1E40 erg/s.
Thank you to the Chandra team for rapidly scheduling and executing these observations.