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Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are thought to be the result of thermonuclear explosions in white dwarfs (WDs). Commonly considered formation pathways include two merging WDs (the double degenerate channel), and a single WD accreting material…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-14 Abinaya Swaruba Rajamuthukumar , Adrian Hamers , Patrick Neunteufel , Ruediger Pakmor , Selma E. de mink

Type Iax supernovae (SNe~Iax) are the most common class of peculiar SNe. While they are thought to be thermonuclear white-dwarf (WD) SNe, SNe~Iax are observationally similar to, but distinct from SNe~Ia. Unlike SNe~Ia, where roughly 30\%…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-12 Tyler Takaro , Ryan J. Foley , Curtis McCully , Wen-fai Fong , Saurabh W. Jha , Gautham Narayan , Armin Rest , Maximilian Stritzinger , Kevin McKinnon

There is general agreement that supernovae Ia correspond to the thermonuclear runaway of a white dwarf that is part of a compact binary, but the details of the progenitor systems are still unknown and much debated. One of the proposed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 M. C. P. Bours , S. Toonen , G. Nelemans

In a canonical model, the progenitors of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are accreting, nuclear-burning white dwarfs (NBWDs), which explode when the white dwarf reaches the Chandrasekhar mass, M_C. Such massive NBWDs are hot (kT ~100 eV),…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Rosanne Di Stefano

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are thought to be thermonuclear explosion of white dwarfs (WDs). Their progenitors are not well understood. One popular scenario is the double-degenerate (DD) scenario, which attributes SNe Ia to WD-WD binary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-17 Kanji Mori , Michael A. Famiano , Toshitaka Kajino , Motohiko Kusakabe , Xiaodong Tang

In this Letter, using classified 197 supernovae (SNe) Ia, we perform an analyses of their height distributions from the disc in edge-on spirals and investigate their light-curve (LC) decline rates $(\Delta m_{15})$. We demonstrate, for the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-28 Lilit V. Barkhudaryan

In recent years, there has been ample evidence that Type Ia supernova (SNe Ia) with high Si 2 velocities near peak brightness are distinguished from SNe Ia of lower velocities and may indeed represent a separate progenitor system. These SNe…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-09 Anya E. Nugent , Abigail E. Polin , Peter E. Nugent

A definitive determination of the progenitors of type Ia supernovae (SNIa) has been a conundrum for decades. The single degenerate scenario $-$ a white dwarf (WD) in a semi-detached binary system accreting mass from its secondary $-$ is a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Yael Hillman , Dina Prialnik , Attay Kovetz , Michael M. Shara

Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) discovered at redshift $z\lesssim2.5$ are presumed to be produced from Population (Pop) I/II stars. {In this work, we investigate the production of SNe Ia from Pop III binaries in the cosmological framework. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-10 Zhenwei Li , Lifan Wang , Zhanwen Han , Xuefei Chen

The single-degenerate model for the progenitors of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) is one of the two most popular models, in which a carbon-oxygen white dwarf (CO WD) accretes hydrogen-rich material from its companion, increases its mass to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Xiangcun Meng , Wuming Yang , Xuemin Geng

We have considered scenarios for the evolution of close binaries resulting in the formation of semi-detached systems in which a white dwarf can accumulate Chandrasekhar mass by accretion from a main-sequence or subgiant companion with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. V. Fedorova , A. V. Tutukov , L. R. Yungelson

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are likely the thermonuclear explosions of carbon-oxygen white-dwarf stars, but their progenitor systems remain elusive. A few theoretical scenarios for the progenitor systems have been suggested, which have been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-01 Amir Sharon , Doron Kushnir

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

A time delay of Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) explosions hinders the imprint of their nucleosynthesis on stellar abundances. However, some occasional cases give birth to stars that avoid enrichment of their chemical compositions by massive…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 Takuji Tsujimoto , Toshikazu Shigeyama

Merging white dwarfs are a possible progenitor of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). While it is not entirely clear if and when an explosion is triggered in such systems, numerical models suggest that a detonation might be initiated before the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Rainer Moll , Cody Raskin , Daniel Kasen , Stan Woosley

Ongoing searches for supernovae (SNe) at cosmological distances have recently started to provide a link between SN Ia statistics and galaxy evolution. In this talk I will use recent estimates of the global history of star formation to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Piero Madau

We calculate the type Ia supernova rate for different star formation histories in galaxies by adopting the most popular and recent progenitor models. We show that the timescale for the maximum in the type Ia supernova rate, which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-04 F. Matteucci , S. Recchi

Context.This is the second paper of a series aiming to determine the birth rates of supernovae in the local Universe. Aims. In this paper, we aim to estimate the SN rates in the local universe and fit the delay-time distribution of SNe Ia…

I examine the hypothesis that many of the high velocity white dwarfs observed by Oppenheimer et al. (2001) are the remnants of donor stars from binaries that produced type Ia supernovae via the `single degenerate' channel. If this channel…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Brad Hansen

Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) may originate from a wide variety of explosion scenarios and progenitor channels. They exhibit a factor of about 10 difference in brightness and, thus, a differentiation in the mass of 56Ni->56Co->56 Fe. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-28 T. B. Mera Evans , P. Hoeflich , R. Diehl