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Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are runaway thermonuclear explosions in white dwarfs that result in the disruption of the white dwarf star, and possibly its nearby stellar companion. SNe Ia occur over an immense range of stellar population age…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-03 Ashley J. Ruiter , Ivo R. Seitenzahl

If accreting white dwarfs (WD) in binary systems are to produce type Ia supernovae (SNIa), they must grow to nearly the Chandrasekhar mass and ignite carbon burning. Proving conclusively that a WD has grown substantially since its birth is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-04 Joanna Mikolajewska , Michael M. Shara

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 single-degenerate model is currently a favourable progenitor model for Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). Recent investigations on the WD + He star channel of the single-degenerate model imply that this channel is noteworthy for producing SNe…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Bo Wang , Xuefei Chen , Xiangcun Meng , Zhanwen Han

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

(${Abridged~version}$) We review how the single degenerate models for Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) works. In the binary star system of a white dwarf (WD) and its non-degenerate companion star, the WD accretes either H-rich matter or He and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-26 Ken'ichi Nomoto , Shing-Chi Leung

Various white-dwarf (WD) binary scenarios have been proposed trying to understand the nature and the diversity of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). In this work, we study the evolution of carbon-oxygen WD -- red giant (RG) binaries (including…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-06 Iminhaji Ablimit , Philipp Podsiadlowski , Rosanne Di Stefano , Saul A. Rappaport , James Wicker

Although Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are a major tool in cosmology and play a key role in the chemical evolution of galaxies, the nature of their progenitor systems (apart from the fact that they must contain at least one white dwarf, that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-12 Pilar Ruiz-Lapuente

The WD+MS channel of the single-degenerate scenario is currently favourable for progenitors of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). Incorporating the results of detailed binary evolution calculations for this channel into the latest version of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Zhanwen Han

The progenitors of supernovae (SNe) type Ia are usually assumed to be either a single white dwarf (WD) accreting from a non-degenerate companion (the SD channel) or the result of two merging WDs (DD channel). However, no consensus currently…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Mikkel Nielsen , Carsten Dominik , Gijs Nelemans , Rasmus Voss

The direct detection of a stellar system that explodes as a Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) has not yet been successful. Various indirect methods have been used to investigate SN Ia progenitor systems but none have produced conclusive results. A…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-09 Kate Maguire , Stefan Taubenberger , Mark Sullivan , Paolo A. Mazzali

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) play a crucial role in studying cosmology and galactic chemical evolution. They are thought to be thermonuclear explosions of carbon-oxygen white dwarfs (CO WDs) when their masses reach the Chandrasekar mass…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-28 C. Wu , B. Wang , D. Liu , Z. Han

The nature of the progenitors of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) remains a mystery. Comparing theoretical rates and delay-time distributions of SNe Ia with those inferred observationally can constrain their progenitor models. In this work,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-22 Zheng-Wei Liu , Richard J. Stancliffe

The progenitor systems accounting for explosions of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) is still under debate. Symbiotic channel is one of the possible progenitor scenarios, in which the WDs in these systems increase in mass through wind accretion…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 Chengyuan Wu , Dongdong Liu , Xiaofeng Wang , Bo Wang

Among the important issues in identifying the progenitor system of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), we focus mostly on circumstellar interaction in SN 2002ic, and give brief discussion on the controversial issues of the effects of rotation in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ken'ichi Nomoto , Tomoharu Suzuki , Jinsong Deng , Tatsuhiro Uenishi , Izumi Hachisu

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

The precise progenitor system of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), whether it is a white dwarf (WD) close to the Chandrasekhar limit or substantially less massive, has been a matter of debate for decades. Recent research by our group on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-28 Eduardo Bravo , Luciano Piersanti , Stéphane Blondin , Inma Domínguez , Oscar Straniero , Sergio Cristallo

The ultimate understanding of Type Ia Supernovae diversity is one of the most urgent issues to exploit thermonuclear explosions of accreted White Dwarfs (WDs) as cosmological yardsticks. In particular, we investigate the impact of the…

Binary stellar evolution has been studied as important pathway to initiate various transient events like supernovae (SNe). Although the common envelope (CE) in a binary, outcomes of the CE and conditions for the SN explosion during the CE…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-16 Iminhaji Ablimit

Mergers of two carbon-oxygen (CO) white dwarfs (WDs) have been considered as progenitors of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). Based on smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations, previous studies claimed that mergers of CO WDs lead to an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-07-15 Yushi Sato , Naohito Nakasato , Ataru Tanikawa , Ken'ichi Nomoto , Keiichi Maeda , Izumi Hachisu