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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

We present a data-driven method based on long short-term memory (LSTM) neural networks to analyze spectral time series of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). The dataset includes 3091 spectra from 361 individual SNe Ia. The method allows for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-09 Lei Hu , Xingzhuo Chen , Lifan Wang

Performing high-resolution, high-fidelity, three-dimensional simulations of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) requires not only algorithms that accurately represent the correct physics, but also codes that effectively harness the resources of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-29 A. Almgren , J. Bell , D. Kasen , M. Lijewski , A. Nonaka , P. Nugent , C. Rendleman , R. Thomas , M. Zingale

The classic single-degenerate model for the progenitors of Type Ia Supernova (SN Ia) predicts that the supernova ejecta should be enriched with solar-like abundance material stripped from the companion star. Spectroscopic observations of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-06 Janos Botyanszki , Daniel Kasen , Tomasz Plewa

Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) form an observationally uniform class of stellar explosions, in that more luminous objects have smaller decline-rates. This one-parameter behavior allows SNe Ia to be calibrated as cosmological `standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 K. Maeda , S. Benetti , M. Stritzinger , F. K. Roepke , G. Folatelli , J. Sollerman , S. Taubenberger , K. Nomoto , G. Leloudas , M. Hamuy , M. Tanaka , P. A. Mazzali , N. Elias-Rosa

We present the results of an ongoing project to use the X-ray observations of Type Ia Supernova Remnants to constrain the physical processes involved in Type Ia Supernova explosions. We use the Tycho Supernova Remnant (SN 1572) as a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Badenes , K. J. Borkowski , E. Bravo , J. P. Hughes , U. Hwang

Type Ia Supernovae hold great promise to measure the cosmic deceleration. The diversity observed among these explosions, however, complicates their ability to measure cosmological parameters considerably. The comparison of near and distant…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Leibundgut

We review the theoretical background and the observational searches made for surviving companions of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). Theory comprises the characteristics of the stellar binary companions of the exploding white dwarfs at the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-29 Pilar Ruiz-Lapuente

Type Ia supernovae are bright stellar explosions distinguished by standardizable light curves that allow for their use as distance indicators for cosmological studies. Despite their highly successful use in this capacity, the progenitors of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Alan C. Calder , Brendan K. Krueger , Aaron P. Jackson , Dean M. Townsley , Edward F. Brown , Francis X. Timmes

Because calibrated light curves of Type Ia supernovae have become a major tool to determine the local expansion rate of the Universe and also its geometrical structure, considerable attention has been given to models of these events over…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 W. Hillebrandt , J. C. Niemeyer

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) play a prominent role in understanding the evolution of Universe. They are thought to be thermonuclear explosions of mass-accreting carbon-oxygen white dwarfs (CO WDs) in binaries, although the mass donors of the…

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

The discovery of the accelerated expansion of the universe using Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) has stimulated a tremendous amount of interest in the use of SNe Type Ia events as standard cosmological candles, and as a probe of the fundamental…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 R. Fisher , D. Falta , G. Jordan , D. Lamb

Type Ia supernovae are bright stellar explosions thought to occur when a thermonuclear runaway consumes roughly a solar mass of degenerate stellar material. These events produce and disseminate iron-peak elements, and properties of their…

From the spectra and light curves it is clear that SNIa are thermonuclear explosions of white dwarfs. However, details of the explosion are highly under debate. Here, we present detailed models which are consistent with respect to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 P. Hoeflich , A. Khokhlov , J. C. Wheeler , K. Nomoto , F. K. Thielemann

Recent studies suggested that the ejecta velocity of Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) is a promising indicator in distinguishing the progenitor systems and explosion mechanisms. By classifying the SNe Ia based on their ejecta velocities, studies…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-16 Han-Tang Lin , Yen-Chen Pan , Abdurro'uf

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) correspond to the thermonuclear explosion of a carbon-oxygen white dwarf (C-O WD) star in a binary system, triggered by the accretion of material from another star, or the merger/collision with a secondary WD.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-06 Stéphane Blondin

Natures of progenitors of type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) have not yet been clarified. There has been long and intensive discussion on whether the so-called single degenerate (SD) scenario or the double degenerate (DD) scenario, or anything…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-14 Keiichi Maeda , Yukikatsu Terada

Type Ia supernovae (SN Ia) are generally believed to be the result of the thermonuclear disruption of Chandrasekhar-mass carbon-oxygen white dwarfs, mainly because such thermonuclear explosions can account for the right amount of Ni-56,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 W. Hillebrandt , J. C. Niemeyer , M. Reinecke

Ejecta velocity of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) is one powerful tool to differentiate between progenitor scenarios and explosion mechanisms. Here we revisit the relation between photospheric Si II 6355 velocities (Vsi) and host-galaxy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-27 Yen-Chen Pan

Strongly lensed type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) provide a unique cosmological probe to address the Hubble tension problem in cosmology. In addition to the sensitivity of the time delays to the value of the Hubble constant, the transient and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-27 Prajakta Mane , Anupreeta More , Surhud More