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Companion Stars of Type Ia Supernovae

Astrophysics 2009-11-13 v1

Abstract

The WD+MS channel of the single-degenerate scenario is currently favourable for progenitors of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). Incorporating the results of detailed binary evolution calculations for this channel into the latest version of a binary population synthesis code, I obtained the distributions of many properties of the companion stars at the moment of SN explosion. The properties can be verified by future observations.

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@article{arxiv.0803.1986,
  title  = {Companion Stars of Type Ia Supernovae},
  author = {Zhanwen Han},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0803.1986},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

7 figures, accepted for publication in ApJL