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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

Recent extensive observations of Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) have revealed the existence of a diversity of SNe Ia, including SNe Iax. We introduce two possible channels in the single degenerate scenario: 1) double detonations in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-24 Chiaki Kobayashi , Ken'ichi Nomoto , Izumi Hachisu

The nature of the progenitors of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) remains a mystery. Binary systems consisting of a white dwarf (WD) and a main-sequence (MS) donor are potential progenitors of SNe Ia, in which a thermonuclear explosion of the WD…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-17 Zheng-Wei Liu , Richard J. Stancliffe

Type Ia supernovae (Ia-SNe) are thought to arise from the thermonuclear explosions of white dwarfs (WDs). The progenitors of such explosions are still highly debated; in particular the conditions leading to detonations in WDs are not well…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-21 S. Toonen , H. B. Perets , A. S. Hamers

Using a sample of nearby spiral galaxies hosting 185 supernovae (SNe) Ia, we perform a comparative analysis of the locations and light curve decline rates $(\Delta m_{15})$ of normal and peculiar SNe Ia in the star formation deserts (SFDs)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-26 A. A. Hakobyan , A. G. Karapetyan , L. V. Barkhudaryan , M. H. Gevorgyan , V. Adibekyan

We have carried out a detailed study of the single-degenerate channel for the progenitors of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). In the model, a carbon-oxygen white dwarf (CO WD) accretes hydrogen-rich material from an unevolved or a slightly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xiangcun Meng , Xuefei Chen , 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

We compute the Type Ia supernova rates in typical elliptical galaxies by varying the progenitor models for Type Ia supernovae. To do that a formalism which takes into account the delay distribution function (DTD) of the explosion times and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 I. Bonaparte , F. Matteucci , S. Recchi , E. Spitoni , A. Pipino , V. Grieco

Although type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are very useful in many astrophysical fields, their exact progenitor nature is still unclear. A basic method to distinguish the different progenitor models is to search the signal from the single…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-21 Xiangcun Meng , Zhanwen Han

Generally accepted scheme distinguishes two main classes of supernovae (SNe): Ia resulting from the old stellar population (deflagration of a white dwarf in close binary systems), and SNe of type II and Ib/c whose ancestors are young…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Bojan Arbutina

There is still considerable debate over the progenitors of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). Likewise, it is not agreed how single white dwarfs with masses less than ~0.5 Msun can be formed in the field, even though they are known to exist. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Stephen Justham , Christian Wolf , Philipp Podsiadlowski , Zhanwen Han

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

We re-assess the question of a systematic time delay between the formation of the progenitor and its explosion in a type Ia supernova (SN Ia) using the Hubble Higher-z Supernova Search sample (Strolger et al. 2004). While the previous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 F. Förster , C. Wolf , Ph. Podsiadlowski , Z. Han

Ejecta velocity of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) is one powerful tool to differentiate between progenitor scenarios and explosion mechanisms. Here we revisit the relation between photospheric Si II 6355 velocities (Vsi) and host-galaxy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-27 Yen-Chen Pan

We have obtained optical spectra of 29 early-type (E/S0) galaxies that hosted type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). We have measured absorption-line strengths and compared them to a grid of models to extract the relations between the supernova…

Our aim is to show how different hypotheses about Type Ia supernova progenitors can affect Galactic chemical evolution. We include different Type Ia SN progenitor models, identified by their distribution of time delays, in a very detailed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 F. Matteucci , E. Spitoni , S. Recchi , R. Valiante

Using the population synthesis binary evolution code StarTrack, we present theoretical rates and delay times of Type Ia supernovae arising from various formation channels. These channels include binaries in which the exploding white dwarf…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 A. J. Ruiter , K. Belczynski , S. A. Sim , W. Hillebrandt , M. Fink , M. Kromer

The lack of hydrogen in spectra of type Ia supernovae (SN Ia) is often seen as troublesome for single-degenerate (SD) progenitor models. We argue that, since continued accretion of angular momentum can prevent explosion of the white dwarf,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Stephen Justham

The precise origin of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) is unknown despite their value to numerous areas in astronomy. While it is a long-standing consensus that they arise from an explosion of a carbon/oxygen white dwarf, the exact progenitor…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-10 Samuel J. Boos , Dean M. Townsley , Ken J. Shen

The time delay between the formation of the progenitor systems of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) and their detonation is a vital discriminant between the various progenitor scenarios that have been proposed for them. We use SDSS optical and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Kevin Schawinski