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The single-degenerate (SD) model is one of the leading models for the progenitors of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). Recently, a new version of the SD model, the common-envelope wind (CEW) model, has been proposed, which, in principle, has the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-23 Yingzhen Cui , Xiangcun Meng , Philipp Podsiadlowski , Ren Song

The common envelope evolution (CEE) is vital in forming short orbital period compact binaries. It covers many objects, such as double compact merging binaries, type Ia supernovae progenitors, binary pulsars, and X-ray binaries. Knowledge…

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Single Degenerate model is the most widely accepted progenitor model of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), in which a carbon-oxygen white dwarf (CO WD) accretes hydrogen-rich material from a main sequence or a slightly evolved star (WD +MS) to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-17 X. -C. Meng , X. -F. Chen , Z. -W. Han , W. -M. Yang

It is thought that type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are explosions of carbon-oxygen white dwarfs (CO WDs). Two main evolutionary channels are proposed for the WD to reach the critical density required for a thermonuclear explosion: the single…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 J. S. W. Claeys , O. R. Pols , R. G. Izzard , J. Vink , F. W. M. Verbunt

The single-degenerate (SD) model is one of the principal models for the progenitors of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). However, it faces some challenges, the primary being its inability to account for the observed SN Ia birth rate. Many…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-01 Xinghuan Wang , Xiangcun Meng

Common envelope (CE) evolution, which is crucial in creating short period binaries and associated astrophysical events, can be constrained by reverse modeling of such binaries' formation histories. Through analysis of a sample of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-20 Peter Scherbak , Jim Fuller

Common envelope evolution (CEE) physics plays a fundamental role in the formation of binary systems, such as mergering stellar gravitational wave sources, pulsar binaries and type Ia supernovae. A precisely constrained CEE has become more…

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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

We have been proposing two evolutionary paths to Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), which are called the supersoft X-ray source (SSS) channel and the symbiotic channel, depending on the orbital separation just prior to an SN Ia explosion. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Izumi Hachisu

The super-Eddington wind scenario has been proposed as an alternative way for producing type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). The super-Eddington wind can naturally prevent the carbon--oxygen white dwarfs (CO WDs) with high mass-accretion rates from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-15 Bo Wang , Xin Ma , Dongdong Liu , Zhengwei Liu , Chengyuan Wu , Jujia Zhang , Zhanwen Han

Recent observations of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) suggest that some of the progenitor white dwarfs (WDs) had masses up to 2.4-2.8 M_sun, highly exceeding the Chandrasekhar mass limit. We present a new single degenerate (SD) model for SN Ia…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Izumi Hachisu , Mariko Kato , Hideyuki Saio , Ken'ichi Nomoto

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

Close binary systems are the progenitors to both Type Ia supernovae and the compact object mergers that can be detected via gravitational waves. To achieve a binary with a small radial separation, it is believed that the system likely…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-11 Steffani M. Grondin , Maria R. Drout , Jason Nordhaus , Philip S. Muirhead , Joshua S. Speagle , Ryan Chornock

The double-degenerate (DD) model, involving the merging of massive double carbon-oxygen white dwarfs (CO WDs) driven by gravitational wave radiation, is one of the classical pathways for the formation of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia).…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-07 Dongdong Liu , Bo Wang , Zhanwen Han

The single-degenerate channel for the progenitors of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are currently accepted, in which a carbon-oxygen white dwarf (CO WD) accretes hydrogen-rich material from its companion, increases its mass to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 X. Meng , X. Chen , Z. Han

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) play an important role in astrophysics and are crucial for the studies of stellar evolution, galaxy evolution and cosmology. They are generally thought to be thermonuclear explosions of accreting carbon-oxygen…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-14 Bo Wang , Zhanwen Han

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are thermonuclear explosions of carbon-oxygen white dwarfs (WDs) that accrete mass from a binary companion, which can be either a non-degenerate star (a main-sequence star or a giant) or an other WD in a binary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-26 Carlo Abate

The white dwarf (WD) + helium (He) star binary channel plays an important role in the single degenerate scenario for the progenitors of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). Previous studies on the WD + main sequence star evolution have shown that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-16 Zhe Cui , Xiang-Dong Li

We conduct a population synthesis study of the common envelope evolution (CEE) of a white dwarf (WD) and an asymptotic giant branch (AGB) star and find that the potential number of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) from the core degenerate (CD)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-15 Pere Canals , Santiago Torres , Noam Soker

We have carried out a detailed study of one of the most popular evolutionary channels for the production of Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) progenitors, the semi-degenerate channel (CO+MS), where a carbon/oxygen (CO) white dwarf (WD) accretes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Zhanwen Han , Philipp Podsiadlowski
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