- Ho, Anna YQ;
- Kulkarni, SR;
- Perley, Daniel A;
- Cenko, S Bradley;
- Corsi, Alessandra;
- Schulze, Steve;
- Lunnan, Ragnhild;
- Sollerman, Jesper;
- Gal-Yam, Avishay;
- Anand, Shreya;
- Barbarino, Cristina;
- Bellm, Eric C;
- Bruch, Rachel J;
- Burns, Eric;
- De, Kishalay;
- Dekany, Richard;
- Delacroix, Alexandre;
- Duev, Dmitry A;
- Frederiks, Dmitry D;
- Fremling, Christoffer;
- Goldstein, Daniel A;
- Golkhou, V Zach;
- Graham, Matthew J;
- Hale, David;
- Kasliwal, Mansi M;
- Kupfer, Thomas;
- Laher, Russ R;
- Martikainen, Julia;
- Masci, Frank J;
- Neill, James D;
- Ridnaia, Anna;
- Rusholme, Ben;
- Savchenko, Volodymyr;
- Shupe, David L;
- Soumagnac, Maayane T;
- Strotjohann, Nora L;
- Svinkin, Dmitry S;
- Taggart, Kirsty;
- Tartaglia, Leonardo;
- Yan, Lin;
- Zolkower, Jeffry
We present optical, radio, and X-ray observations of SN 2020bvc (=ASASSN-20bs, ZTF 20aalxlis), a nearby broad-line (BL) Type Ic supernova (SN) and the first double-peaked Ic-BL discovered without a gamma-ray burst (GRB) trigger. Our observations show that SN 2020bvc shares several properties in common with the Ic-BL SN 2006aj, which was associated with the low-luminosity gamma-ray burst (LLGRB) 060218. First, the 10 GHz radio luminosity is brighter than ordinary core-collapse SNe but fainter than LLGRB SNe such as SN 1998bw (associated with LLGRB 980425). We model our VLA observations (spanning 13-43 days) as synchrotron emission from a mildly relativistic (v 0.3c) forward shock. Second, with Swift and Chandra, we detect X-ray emission (L X 1041 erg that is not naturally explained as inverse Compton emission or part of the same synchrotron spectrum as the radio emission. Third, high-cadence (6× night-1) data from the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) show a double-peaked optical light curve, the first peak from shock cooling of extended low-mass material (mass SN 2020bvc is the first double-peaked Ic-BL SN discovered without a GRB trigger, so it is noteworthy that it shows X-ray and radio emission similar to LLGRB SNe. For four of the five other nearby (z ≲ 0.05) Ic-BL SNe with ZTF high-cadence data, we rule out a first peak like that seen in SN 2006aj and SN 2020bvc, i.e., that lasts 1 day and reaches a peak luminosity M -18. Follow-up X-ray and radio observations of Ic-BL SNe with well-sampled early optical light curves will establish whether double-peaked optical light curves are indeed predictive of LLGRB-like X-ray and radio emission.