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It has recently been proposed that one sub-class of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) is sufficiently both distinct and common to be classified separately from the bulk of SNe Ia, with a suggested class name of "type Iax supernovae" (SNe Iax),…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-25 Bo Wang , Stephen Justham , Zhanwen Han

We study the spinning down time scale of rapidly rotating white dwarfs (WDs) in the frame of the core-degenerate (CD) scenario for type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). In the CD scenario the Chandrasekhar or super-Chandrasekhar mass WD is formed at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Marjan Ilkov , Noam Soker

Supernovae of type Ia (SNe Ia) are believed to be thermonuclear explosions of carbon-oxygen white dwarfs (CO WDs). However, the mass accretion process onto CO WDs is still not completely understood. In this paper, we study the accretion of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-18 Bo Wang , Yan Li , Xin Ma , Dongdong Liu , Xiao Cui , Zhanwen Han

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

The nature of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) is still unclear. Employing Eggleton's stellar evolution code with the optically thick wind assumption, we systematically studied the He star donor channel of SNe Ia, in which a carbon-oxygen white…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Bo Wang , Zhanwen Han

Type Ia supernovae are generally thought to be due to the thermonuclear explosions of carbon-oxygen white dwarfs with masses near the Chandrasekhar mass. This scenario, however, has two long-standing problems. First, the explosions do not…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Marten H. van Kerkwijk , Philip Chang , Stephen Justham

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

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

Binary stellar evolution calculations predict that Chandrasekhar-mass carbon/oxygen white dwarfs (WDs) show a radially varying profile for the composition with a carbon depleted core. Many recent multi-dimensional simulations of Type Ia…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-03 Sebastian T. Ohlmann , Markus Kromer , Michael Fink , Rüdiger Pakmor , Ivo R. Seitenzahl , Stuart A. Sim , Friedrich K. Roepke

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

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are manifestations of stars deficient of hydrogen and helium disrupting in a thermonuclear runaway. While explosions of carbon-oxygen white dwarfs are thought to account for the majority of events, part of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-11 John Antoniadis , Savvas Chanlaridis , Götz Gräfener , Norbert Langer

Nova explosions occur on the white dwarf (WD) component of a Cataclysmic Variable stellar system which is accreting matter lost by a companion. A Type Ia supernova explosion is thought to result when a WD, in a similar binary configuration,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Starrfield , F. X. Timmes , W. R. Hix , E. M. Sion , W. M. Sparks , S. J. Dwyer

The accretion of hydrogen-rich material onto carbon-oxygen white dwarfs (CO WDs) is crucial for understanding type Ia supernova (SN Ia) from the single-degenerate model, but this process has not been well understood due to the numerical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Xin Ma , Xuefei Chen , Hailiang Chen , Pavel A. Denissenkov , Zhanwen Han

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

The single-degenerate model for the progenitors of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) is one of the two most popular models, in which a carbon-oxygen white dwarf (CO WD) accretes hydrogen-rich material from its companion, increases its mass to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Xiangcun Meng , Wuming Yang , Xuemin Geng

In accreting WDs approaching the Chandrasekhar limit, hydrostatic carbon burning precedes the dynamical breakout. During this \textit{simmering} phase, $e-$captures are energetically favored in the central region of the star, while…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-23 Luciano Piersanti , Eduardo Bravo , Oscar Straniero , Sergio Cristallo , Inmaculada Dominguez

When a Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) progenitor first ignites carbon in its core, it undergoes ${\sim} \,10^{3}-10^{4} \,$yr of convective burning prior to the onset of thermonuclear runaway. This carbon simmering phase is important for setting…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-21 Héctor Martínez-Rodríguez , Anthony L. Piro , Josiah Schwab , Carles Badenes

We calculate nucleosynthesis of proton-rich isotopes in the carbon-deflagration model for Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). The seed abundances are obtained by calculating the s-process nucleosynthesis that is expected to occur in the repeating…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-21 Motohiko Kusakabe , Nobuyuki Iwamoto , Ken'ichi Nomoto

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) play an important role in astrophysics, especially in the study of cosmic evolution. There are several progenitor models for SNe Ia proposed in the past years. In this paper, we have carried out a detailed study…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-14 B. Wang , X. Meng , X. Chen , Z. Han

The origin of the progenitors of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) is still uncertain. The core-degenerate (CD) scenario has been proposed as an alternative way for the production of SNe Ia. In this scenario, SNe Ia are formed at the final stage…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-15 Bo Wang , Weihong Zhou , Zhaoyu Zuo , Yinbi Li , Xia Luo , Jujia Zhang , Dongdong Liu , Chengyuan Wu