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We calculated a grid of evolutionary models for white dwarfs with helium cores (He-WDs) and investigated the occurrence of hydrogen-shell flashes due to unstable hydrogen burning via CNO cycling. Our calculations show that such thermal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Driebe , T. Bloecker , D. Schoenberner , F. Herwig

Cataclysmic variable stars (CVs) are close binary systems consisting of a white dwarf (primary) that is accreting matter from a low-mass companion star (secondary). From time to time such systems undergo large-amplitude brightenings. The…

We describe a mechanism by which a failed deflagration of a Chandrasekhar-mass carbon-oxygen white dwarf can turn into a successful thermonuclear supernova explosion, without invoking an ad hoc high-density deflagration-detonation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eduardo Bravo , Domingo Garcia-Senz

When the effective temperature of a cooling white dwarf $T_{\rm eff}$ drops below the ionization limit, it develops a surface convection zone that may generate a magnetic field $B$ through one of several dynamo mechanisms. We revisit this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-09 Rom Yaakovyan , Sivan Ginzburg , Jim Fuller , Nicholas Z. Rui

On a disk deformed to a non-axisymmetric form, a set of oscillations can be excited by their resonant interaction through the disk deformation (Kato et al. 2011). This resonant instability process has been proposed to suggest a possible…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-31 Shoji Kato

The rate of tidal disruption events (TDEs) can vary by orders of magnitude depending on the environment and the mechanism that launches the stars towards the black hole's vicinity. For the largest rates, two disruptions can take place…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-23 Clément Bonnerot , Elena M. Rossi

We have modelled the multicycle evolution of rapidly-accreting CO white dwarfs (RAWDs) with stable H burning intermittent with strong He-shell flashes on their surfaces for $0.7\leq M_\mathrm{RAWD}/M_\odot\leq 0.75$ and [Fe/H] ranging from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-24 Pavel Denissenkov , Falk Herwig , Paul Woodward , Robert Andrassy , Marco Pignatari , Samuel Jones

Recent discovery of several overluminous type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) indicates that the explosive masses of white dwarfs may significantly exceed the canonical Chandrasekhar mass limit. Rapid differential rotation may support these massive…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 W. -M. Liu , W. -C. Chen , B. Wang , Z. W. Han

Observational evidences point to a common explosion mechanism of Type Ia supernovae based on a delayed detonation of a white dwarf. However, all attempts to find a convincing ignition mechanism based on a delayed detonation in a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Eduardo Bravo , Domingo Garcia-Senz , Ruben M. Cabezon , Inmaculada Dominguez

The main aim in the current survey is to suggest models of the development of structures, such as vortices and spirals, in accretion white dwarf's binaries. Numerical methods and simulations are applied on the bases of hydrodynamic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Daniela Boneva

The evolution of low mass (M < 2.5 Msun) binaries through the common envelope phase has been studied for systems in which one member is on its first ascent of the red giant branch. Three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations have been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Eric L. Sandquist , Ronald E. Taam , Andreas Burkert

One of the fundamental properties of an intermediate polar is the dynamical nature of the accretion flow as it encounters the white dwarf's magnetosphere. Many works have presumed a dichotomy between disk-fed accretion, in which the WD…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-21 Colin Littlefield , Simone Scaringi , Peter Garnavich , Paula Szkody , Mark R. Kennedy , Krystian Ilkiewicz , Paul A. Mason

We derive the criteria for deflagration to detonation transition (DDT) in a Type Ia supernova. The theory is based on the two major assumptions: (i) detonation is triggered via the Zeldovich gradient mechanism inside a region of mixed fuel…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 A. M. Khokhlov , E. S. Oran , J. Craig Wheeler

Dwarf novae are semi-detached binaries, where a white dwarf accretes material from a cool main-sequence companion via an accretion disk, and are known for their intermittent outbursts, making them key systems for studying accretion physics.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-13 Qi-Bin Sun , Sheng-Bang Qian , Li-Ying Zhu , Qin-Mei Li , Fu-Xing Li , Min-Yu Li , Ping Li

The paper describes a physical model and numerical algorithm for modeling Type Ia supernova (SNIa) explosions in three dimensions and presents first results of modeling a deflagration explosion in a nonrotating, Chandrasekhar-mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. M. Khokhlov

The behaviour of carbon-oxygen white dwarfs (WDs) subject to direct helium accretion is extensively studied. We aim to analyze the thermal response of the accreting WD to mass deposition at different time scales. The analysis has been…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 L. Piersanti , A. Tornambé , L. R. Yungelson

We present the results of an investigation of the dredge-up and mixing during the merger of two white dwarfs with different chemical compositions by conducting hydrodynamic simulations of binary mergers for three representative mass ratios.…

The collision of two white dwarfs is a quite frequent event in dense stellar systems, like globular clusters and galactic nuclei. In this paper we present the results of a set of simulations of the close encounters and collisions of two…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 P. Lorén-Aguilar , J. Isern , E. García-Berro

Planet-forming disks are not isolated systems. Their interaction with the surrounding medium affects their mass budget and chemical content. In the context of the ALMA-DOT program, we obtained high-resolution maps of assorted lines from six…