A Single Binary May Host Recurrent Thermonuclear Supernovae
Abstract
The most commonly accepted progenitor system for Type Iax supernovae (SNe Iax) is the partial deflagration of a near-Chandrasekhar-mass white dwarf (WD) accreting from a non-degenerate helium donor star, leaving a bound remnant following the explosion. In this paper, we investigate whether the WD remant can undergo multiple SNe during the system's lifetime. We use Modules for Experiments in Astrophysics (MESA) to evolve various single-degenerate binaries to determine which could plausibly undergo multiple SNe Iax due to multiple helium accretion phases. We also investigate the possibility for a subsequent Type Ia SN after the formation of a double WD system. Our work concludes that close binaries with relatively high-mass donors produce the highest probability for several thermonuclear SNe.
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@article{arxiv.2212.12596,
title = {A Single Binary May Host Recurrent Thermonuclear Supernovae},
author = {Kaela J. Lee and Ken J. Shen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.12596},
year = {2023}
}
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11 pages, 8 figures. Minor updates added in response to community input