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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

In the single degenerate (SD) scenario for type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), a mass-accreting white dwarf is expected to experience a supersoft X-ray source (SSS) phase. However, some recent observations showed that the expected number of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Xiangcun Meng , Wuming Yang

We examine the possibility that supernovae type Ia (SN Ia) are produced by white dwarfs accreting from Roche-lobe filling evolved companions, under the assumption that a strong optically thick stellar wind from accretor is able to stabilize…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Lev R. Yungelson , Mario Livio

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

We analyze the evolution of binary stars to calculate synthetic rates and delay times of the most promising Type Ia Supernovae progenitors. We present and discuss evolutionary scenarios in which a white dwarf reaches the Chandrasekhar-mass…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-27 Ashley J. Ruiter , Krzysztof Belczynski , Chris L. Fryer

We discuss the results about the nature of type Ia Supernovae that can be derived by studying their rates in different stellar populations. While the evolution of SN photometry and spectra can constrain the explosion mechanism, the SN rate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-08-06 F. Mannucci

We describe our ongoing program designed to measure the SN-Ia rate in a sample of massive z=0.5-0.9 galaxy clusters. The SN-Ia rate is a poorly known observable, especially at high z, and in cluster environments. The SN rate and its…

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) have been used as excellent standardizable candles for measuring cosmic expansion, but their progenitors are still elusive. Here we report that the spectral diversity of SNe Ia is tied to their birthplace…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-17 Xiaofeng Wang , Lifan Wang , Alexei V. Filippenko , Tianmeng Zhang , Xulin Zhao

Type Ia supernovae (SNIa) remain mysterious despite their central importance in cosmology and their rapidly increasing discovery rate. The progenitors of SNIa can be probed by the delay time between progenitor birth and explosion as SNIa.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-01 Shunsaku Horiuchi , John F. Beacom

Type Ia supernovae (SNe) serve as a fundamental pillar of modern cosmology, owing to their large luminosity and a well-defined relationship between light-curve shape and peak brightness. The precision distance measurements enabled by SNe Ia…

We derive the delay-time distribution (DTD) of type-Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) using a sample of 132 SNe Ia, discovered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey II (SDSS2) among 66,000 galaxies with spectral-based star-formation histories (SFHs). To…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Dan Maoz , Filippo Mannucci , Timothy D. Brandt

The delay time distribution (DTD) of Type-Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) is important for understanding chemical evolution, SN Ia progenitors, and SN Ia physics. Past estimates of the DTD in galaxy clusters have been deduced from SN Ia rates…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-03 Jonathan Freundlich , Dan Maoz

Searches for circumstellar material around Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are one of the most powerful tests of the nature of SN Ia progenitors, and radio observations provide a particularly sensitive probe of this material. Here we report…

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are fundamental to cosmology and galactic chemical evolution, yet the nature of their progenitor systems remains unresolved. Multiple evolutionary pathways, including single-degenerate, double-degenerate, and…

Recent investigations on the delay time of type Ia supernovae have set useful constraints on the progenitors of type Ia supernovae. Here we have calculated the evolution of close binaries consisting of a white dwarf and a main-sequence or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-19 Wen-Cong Chen , Xiang-Dong Li

The remarkable uniformity of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) has allowed astronomers to use them as distance indicators to measure the properties and expansion history of the Universe. However, SNe Ia exhibit intrinsic variation in both their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 William Michael Wood-Vasey

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…

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 hybrid CONe white dwarfs (WDs) have been suggested to be possible progenitors of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). In this article, we systematically studied the hybrid CONe WD + He star scenario for the progenitors of SNe Ia, in which a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Bo Wang , Xiangcun Meng , Dongdong Liu , Zhengwei Liu , Zhanwen Han

Recent studies indicate that Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) consist of two groups - a "prompt" component whose rates are proportional to the host galaxy star formation rate, whose members have broader lightcurves and are intrinsically more…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 D. Andrew Howell , Mark Sullivan , Alex Conley , Ray Carlberg