Progenitors of type Ia supernovae
Abstract
Natures of progenitors of type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) have not yet been clarified. There has been long and intensive discussion on whether the so-called single degenerate (SD) scenario or the double degenerate (DD) scenario, or anything else, could explain a major population of SNe Ia, but the conclusion has not yet been reached. With rapidly increasing observational data and new theoretical ideas, the field of studying the SN Ia progenitors has been quickly developing, and various new insights have been obtained in recent years. This article aims at providing a summary of the current situation regarding the SN Ia progenitors, both in theory and observations. It seems difficult to explain the emerging diversity seen in observations of SNe Ia by a single population, and we emphasize that it is important to clarify links between different progenitor scenarios and different sub-classes of SNe Ia.
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@article{arxiv.1609.03639,
title = {Progenitors of type Ia supernovae},
author = {Keiichi Maeda and Yukikatsu Terada},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.03639},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
22 pages, 4 figures, 1 table. A rapporteur article for the BN4 session of the 14th Marcel Grossmann Meeting, published as a review article in International Journal of Modern Physics D, Vol. 25, No. 10 (2016) 1630024