Theoretical Delay Time Distributions
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2015-06-04 v2 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Abstract
We briefly discuss the method of population synthesis to calculate theoretical delay time distributions of type Ia supernova progenitors. We also compare the results of the different research groups and conclude that although one of the main differences in the results for single degenerate progenitors is the retention efficiency with which accreted hydrogen is added to the white dwarf core, this cannot explain all the differences.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1204.2960,
title = {Theoretical Delay Time Distributions},
author = {Gijs Nelemans and Silvia Toonen and Madelon Bours},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.2960},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
To appear in proceedings of IAU Symposium no. 281 "Binary Paths to Type Ia Supernova Explosions", 5-10 July 2011, Padova, Italy. Corrected typo in table 1