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Single-degenerate (SD) binary systems composed of a white dwarf and a non-degenerate helium (He)-star companion have been proposed as the potential progenitors of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). The He-star companions are expected to survive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-11 Zheng-Wei Liu , Friedrich K. Roepke , Yaotian Zeng

We study the occurrence of delayed SNe~Ia in the single degenerate (SD) scenario. We assume that a massive carbon-oxygen (CO) white dwarf (WD) accretes matter coming from a companion star, making it to spin at the critical rate. We assume…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-19 Omar G. Benvenuto , Jorge A. Panei , Ken'ichi Nomoto , Hikaru Kitamura , Izumi Hachisu

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 single-degenerate (SD) model is one of the principal models for the progenitors of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), but some of the predictions in the most widely studied version of the SD model, i.e. the optically thick wind (OTW) model,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 X. Meng , Ph. Podsiadlowski

We present new evolutionary models for Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) progenitors, introducing mass-stripping effect on a main-sequence (MS) or slightly evolved companion star by winds from a mass-accreting white dwarf (WD). The mass-stripping…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Izumi Hachisu , Mariko Kato , 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

To date, the question of which progenitor channel can reproduce the observed rate of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) remains unresolved, with the single and double degenerate scenarios remaining the leading contenders. The former implies a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-07 T. E. Woods , Marat Gilfanov

Type Ia supernovae are thermonuclear explosions of white dwarfs, yet the nature of their progenitor systems remains uncertain. Recent discoveries of hypervelocity stars provide unique constraints, as these stars likely represent the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-18 Abinaya Swaruba Rajamuthukumar , Ruediger Pakmor , Stephen Justham , Aakash Bhat , Ken J Shen

Most subdwarf B (sdB) + Helium white dwarf (He WD) binaries are believed to be formed from a particular channel. In this channel, the He WDs are produced first from red giants (RGs) with degenerate cores via stable mass transfer and sdB…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-07 Yangyang Zhang , Hai-Liang Chen , Heran Xiong , Xuefei Chen , Zhanwen Han

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

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 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…

Following a type Ia supernova (SN Ia) in a double white dwarf (WD) binary, a surviving WD companion leaves at its orbital velocity $\approx 1$,000 - 3,000 km/s. The Gaia mission has discovered seven such hypervelocity WDs with inflated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-19 Tin Long Sunny Wong , Lars Bildsten

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are common luminous astrophysical transients. SNe Ia serve as distance indicators for measuring the expansion rate of the universe and play important roles in galactic nucleosynthesis. However, ambiguities…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-02 Vrutant Mehta , Vishal Tiwari , Ruediger Pakmor , Divyanshu Singh , Robert Fisher

The evolution of binaries consisting of evolved main sequence stars (1 < M_d/Msun < 3.5) with white dwarf companions (0.7 < M_wd/Msun < 1.2) is investigated through the thermal mass transfer phase. Taking into account the stabilizing effect…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Natalia Ivanova , Ronald E. Taam

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are thermonuclear explosions of degenerate white dwarf (WD) stars destabilized by mass accretion from a companion star, but the nature of their progenitors remains poorly understood. A way to discriminate between…

Close white dwarf binaries make up a wide variety of objects such as double white dwarf binaries, which are possible SN Ia progenitors, cataclysmic variables, super soft sources, or AM CVn stars. The evolution and formation of close white…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. R. Schreiber , A. Nebot Gomez-Moran , A. D. Schwope

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

The creation of "hybrid" white dwarfs, made of a C-O core within a O-Ne shell has been proposed, and studies indicate that ignition in the C-rich central region makes these viable progenitors for thermonuclear (type Ia) supernovae. Recent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Carlyn N. Augustine , Donald E. Willcox , Jared Brooks , Dean M. Townsley , Alan C. Calder

White dwarfs (WDs) are the stellar core remnants of low mass stars. They are typically divided into three main composition groups: Oxygen Neon (ONe), Carbon Oxygen (CO) and Helium (He) WDs. The evolution of binary systems can significantly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 Yossef Zenati , Silvia Toonen , Hagai B. Perets