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Seeking the Progenitors of Type Ia Supernovae

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2015-05-13 v1 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Abstract

The nature of the progenitor system[s] of Type Ia Supernovae is still unclear. In this contribution I review the projects that have been undertaken to answer this question and the results they have led to. The conclusion is that, as of today, we have reasonable guesses but none of them has yet been proven by direct observations.

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@article{arxiv.0906.2620,
  title  = {Seeking the Progenitors of Type Ia Supernovae},
  author = {Ferdinando Patat},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0906.2620},
  year   = {2015}
}

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Published in "Probing Stellar Populations out to the Distant Universe", AIP Conference Proceedings, 1111, p.299, (8 pages, 1 figure)