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The accretion-induced collapse (AIC) of a white dwarf in a binary with a nondegenerate companion can sometimes lead to the formation of a rapidly rotating and highly magnetized neutron star (NS). The spin-down of this NS can drive a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-31 Yun-Wei Yu , Aming Chen , Xiang-Dong Li

We present the first general relativistic, neutrino-radiation hydrodynamics simulations of accretion-induced collapse (AIC) extending to seconds after core bounce, using realistic hadron-quark hybrid equations of state (EOSs). A first-order…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-06 Juno C. L. Chan , Harry Ho-Yin Ng , Patrick Chi-Kit Cheong

The accretion-induced collapse (AIC) of a rotating white dwarf (WD) offers a potential site of millisecond pulsars/magnetars, gamma-ray bursts, and r-process nucleosynthesis. We present three-dimensional general-relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-25 Luciano Combi , Daniel M. Siegel , Brian D. Metzger

We present fully general-relativistic three-dimensional numerical simulations of accretion-induced collapse (AIC) of white dwarfs (WDs). We evolve three different WD models (nonrotating, rotating at 80% and 99% of the Keplerian mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-27 Luís Felipe Longo Micchi , David Radice , Cecilia Chirenti

Accretion-induced collapse (AIC) is widely accepted to be one of the formation channels for millisecond pulsars (MSPs). Since the MSPs have high spindown luminosities, they can immediately start to evaporate their companion stars after…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 Wei-Min Liu , Xiang-Dong Li

We revisit the accretion-induced collapse (AIC) process, in which a white dwarf collapses into a neutron star. We are motivated by the persistent radio source associated with the fast radio burst FRB 121102, which was explained by Waxman as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-22 Amir Sharon , Doron Kushnir

It has long been expected that in some scenarios when a white dwarf (WD) grows to the Chandrasekhar limit, it can undergo an accretion induced collapse (AIC) to form a rapidly rotating neutron star. Nevertheless, the detection of such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Anthony L. Piro , S. R. Kulkarni

Recent calculations of accretion-induced collapse of an oxygen-neon-magnesium white dwarf into a neutron star [Piro & Thompson 2014] allow for a potentially detectable transient electromagnetic signal. Motivated by these results, I present…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-03 Damian Kwiatkowski

The disks of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) have emerged as a rich environment for the evolution of stars and their compact remnants. The very dense medium favors rapid accretion, while torques and migration traps enhance binary formation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-07 Rosalba Perna , Hiromichi Tagawa , Zoltan Haiman , Imre Bartos

Type-Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are important distance indicators, element factories, cosmic-ray accelerators, kinetic-energy sources in galaxy evolution, and endpoints of stellar binary evolution. It has long been clear that a SN Ia must be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Dan Maoz , Filippo Mannucci , Gijs Nelemans

Accretion-induced collapse (AIC) of massive white-dwarfs (WDs) has been proposed as an important way for the formation of neutron star (NS) systems. An oxygen-neon (ONe) WD that accretes H-rich material from a red-giant (RG) star may…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-01 Bo Wang , Dongdong Liu , Hailiang Chen

We present the first seconds-long 2D general relativistic neutrino magnetohydrodynamic simulations of accretion-induced collapse (AIC) in rapidly rotating, strongly magnetized white dwarfs (WDs), which might originate as remnants of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-21 Patrick Chi-Kit Cheong , Tetyana Pitik , Luís Felipe Longo Micchi , David Radice

Observations of pulsars in globular clusters (GCs) give evidence that more >10-20% of neutron stars (NSs) ever formed in GCs were retained there. However, the velocity distribution of field pulsars peaks at 5-10 times the escape velocities…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 Hagai B. Perets

We examine rare evolutionary routes of binary systems where the initially more massive primary star of ~5.5-8.5Mo, forms a white dwarf (WD), while the secondary star of 4Mo < M_2,0 < M_1,0 accretes mass from the evolved primary and later…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 Efrat Sabach , Noam Soker

The mergers of neutron stars (NSs) and white dwarfs (WDs) could give rise to explosive transients, potentially observable with current and future transient surveys. However, the expected properties and distribution of such events is not…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-07 S. Toonen , H. B. Perets , A. P. Igoshev , E. Michaely , Y. Zenati

This paper investigates the progenitors of Millisecond Pulsars (MSPs) with a distribution of long orbital periods (P_orb > 2 d), to show the link between white dwarf (WD) binaries and long orbits for some binary MSPs through the Accretion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-04 Ali Taani , Awni Khasawneh

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

We present a brief summary of the Single Degenerate Scenario for the progenitors of Type Ia Supernovae in which it is assumed that a low mass carbon-oxygen white dwarf is growing in mass as a result of accretion from a secondary star in a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-24 S. Starrfield , C. Iliadis , F. X. Timmes , W. R. Hix , W. D. Arnett , C. Meakin , W. M. Sparks

We present a study of the observational properties of Millisecond Pulsars (MSPs) by way of their magnetic fields, spin periods and masses. These measurements are derived through the scenario of Accretion Induced Collapse (AIC) of white…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 A. Taani , Y. H. Zhao , A. Moraghan