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It is thought that type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are explosions of carbon-oxygen white dwarfs (CO WDs). Two main evolutionary channels are proposed for the WD to reach the critical density required for a thermonuclear explosion: the single…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 J. S. W. Claeys , O. R. Pols , R. G. Izzard , J. Vink , F. W. M. Verbunt

Even though Type Ia supernovae (SNIa) play an important role in many fields in astronomy, the nature of the progenitors of SNIa remain a mystery. One of the classical evolutionary pathways towards a SNIa explosion is the single degenerate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-17 S. Toonen

The nature of the progenitors of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) is still unclear. In this paper, by considering the effect of the instability of accretion disk on the evolution of white dwarf (WD) binaries, we performed binary evolution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-29 Bo Wang , Xiang-Dong Li , Zhan-Wen Han

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) play an important role in diverse areas of astrophysics, from the chemical evolution of galaxies to observational cosmology. However, the nature of the progenitors of SNe Ia is still unclear. In this paper,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-29 Bo Wang , Zhengwei Liu , Yunkun Han , Zhenxin Lei , Yangping Luo , Zhanwen Han

In the symbiotic (or WD+RG) channel of the single degenerate scenario for type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) the explosions occur a relatively long time after star formation. The birthrate from this channel would be too low to account for all…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Xuefei Chen , Zhanwen Han , Christopher A. Tout

Type Ia supernovae are thought to occur as a white dwarf made of carbon and oxygen accretes sufficient mass to trigger a thermonuclear explosion$^{1}$. The accretion could occur slowly from an unevolved (main-sequence) or evolved (subgiant…

The occurrence and properties of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) in single-degenerate binary systems (white dwarf [WD] + nondegenerate companion) is examined for galaxies of different types, and as a function of redshift. The rates and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 R. Canal , P. Ruiz-Lapuente , A. Burkert

SNe Ia play a key role in the fields of astrophysics and cosmology. It is widely accepted that SNe Ia arise from thermonuclear explosions of WDs in binaries. However, there is no consensus on the fundamental aspects of the nature of SN Ia…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-28 Zheng-Wei Liu , Friedrich K. Roepke , Zhanwen Han

We present new evolutionary models for Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) progenitors, introducing mass-stripping effect on a main-sequence (MS) or slightly evolved companion star by winds from a mass-accreting white dwarf (WD). The mass-stripping…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Izumi Hachisu , Mariko Kato , Ken'ichi Nomoto

Incorporating the effect of mass-stripping and accretion-disk instability on the evolution of WD binary, we carried out binary stellar evolution calculations for more than 1600 close WD binaries. As a result, the initial parameter spaces…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Xiangcun Meng , Wuming Yang

The symbiotic channel of Type Ia supernovae progenitors is crucial for explaining the observed circumstellar material in some Type Ia supernovae. While extensive numerical and observational efforts have been dedicated to exploring the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-08 Yu-Hui Wang , Hsin-Pei Chen , Kuo-Chuan Pan

The potential importance of the angular momentum which is gained by accreting white dwarfs (WDs) has been increasingly recognized in the context of type Ia supernova (SN Ia) single-degenerate model. The expectation that the spin of the WD…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-21 Bo Wang , Stephen Justham , Zhengwei Liu , Jujia Zhang , Dongdong Liu , Zhanwen Han

We discuss application of population synthesis for binary stars to progenitors of SN Ia. We show that the only candidate systems able to support the rate of SNe Ia $\sim 10^{-3} yr^{-1}$ both in old and young populations are merging white…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-11 Lev R. Yungelson

Type Ia supernovae are thought to be caused by thermonuclear explosions of a carbon-oxygen white dwarf in close binary systems. In the single-degenerate scenario (SDS), the companion star is non-degenerate and can be significantly affected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Kuo-Chuan Pan , Paul Ricker , Ronald Taam

Employing Eggleton's stellar evolution code with an optically thick wind assumption, we have systematically studied the WD + He star channel of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), in which a carbon-oxygen WD accretes material from a He…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-21 Bo Wang , Zhanwen Han

The nature of progenitors of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) and their explosion mechanism remain unclear. It has been suggested that SNe Ia may be resulted from thermonuclear explosions of hybrid carbon-oxygen-neon white dwarfs(CONe WDs) when…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-03 Boyang Guo , Xiangcun Meng , Zhijia Tian , Jingxiao Luo , Zhengwei Liu

Relatively uniform light curves and spectral evolution of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) have led to the use of SNe Ia as a ``standard candle'' to determine cosmological parameters. Whether a statistically significant value of the cosmological…

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are a critical tool for cosmology and galactic enrichment, yet the progenitor systems of normal SNe Ia remain a central puzzle. The long-debated single-degenerate (SD) channel, where a white dwarf (WD) accretes…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-18 Amir Michaelis , Hagai B. Perets

Recent theoretical and numerical studies of Type Ia supernova explosion within the single-degenerate scenario suggest that the non-degenerate companions could survive during the supernova impact and could be detectable in nearby supernova…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-20 Shiau-Jie Rau , Kuo-Chuan Pan

Despite the significance of Type Ia supernovae (SNeIa) in many fields in astrophysics, SNeIa lack a theoretical explanation. The standard scenarios involve thermonuclear explosions of carbon/oxygen white dwarfs approaching the Chandrasekhar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-02-05 S. Toonen , G. Nelemans , M. Bours , S. Portegies Zwart , J. Claeys , N. Mennekens , A. Ruiter