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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 July 2017
Recent far-infrared (FIR) observations have revealed the presence of freshly formed dust with the masses exceeding 0.1 M⊙ in young remnants of core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) such as SN 1987A and Cassiopeia A. Meanwhile, dust masses derived from near- to mid-infrared (N/MIR) observations of CCSNe a few years after explosions are on the order of 10−5–10−3M⊙. Here, we demonstrate that such small dust masses as seen from N/MIR observations would not necessarily reflect the formation history of dust but could be just limited by the luminosity of the SN that can heat up dust formed in the ejecta.