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White dwarfs (WDs) can increase their mass by accretion from companion stars, provided the mass-accretion rate is high enough to avoid nova eruptions. The accretion regimes that allow growth of the WDs are usually calculated assuming…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-03-20 Silvia Toonen , Rasmus Voss , Christian Knigge

Double helium white dwarfs (He WDs) are one type of gravitational wave source and are greatly important in the studies of binary interaction, particularly in the common envelope (CE) ejection physics. Most double He WDs with mass ratios of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-21 Yangyang Zhang , Zhenwei Li , Xuefei Chen , Zhanwen Han

Using the population synthesis binary evolution code StarTrack, we present theoretical rates and delay times of Type Ia supernovae arising from various formation channels. These channels include binaries in which the exploding white dwarf…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 A. J. Ruiter , K. Belczynski , S. A. Sim , W. Hillebrandt , M. Fink , M. Kromer

Today, Type Ia supernovae are essential tools for cosmology, and recognized as major contributors to the chemical evolution of galaxies. The construction of detailed supernova progenitor models, however, was so far prevented by various…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 S. C. Yoon , N. Langer

We study the hydrodynamics and nucleosynthesis in the double-detonation model of Type Ia supernovae (SNe~Ia) and the interaction between the ejecta and a surviving white dwarf (WD) companion in the double-degenerate scenario. We set up a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-05 Ataru Tanikawa , Ken'ichi Nomoto , Naohito Nakasato

A definitive determination of the progenitors of type Ia supernovae (SNIa) has been a conundrum for decades. The single degenerate scenario $-$ a white dwarf (WD) in a semi-detached binary system accreting mass from its secondary $-$ is a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Yael Hillman , Dina Prialnik , Attay Kovetz , Michael M. Shara

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

{Context} Recent investigations of the white dwarf (WD) + He star channel of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) imply that this channel can produce SNe Ia with short delay times. The companion stars in this channel would survive and be potentially…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-29 Bo Wang , Zhanwen Han

We analyze the evolution of binary stars to calculate synthetic rates and delay times of the most promising Type Ia Supernovae progenitors. We present and discuss evolutionary scenarios in which a white dwarf reaches the Chandrasekhar-mass…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-27 Ashley J. Ruiter , Krzysztof Belczynski , Chris L. Fryer

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are a critical tool for cosmology and galactic enrichment, yet the progenitor systems of normal SNe Ia remain a central puzzle. The long-debated single-degenerate (SD) channel, where a white dwarf (WD) accretes…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-18 Amir Michaelis , Hagai B. Perets

Recent observational evidence has demonstrated that white dwarf (WD) mergers are a highly efficient mechanism for mass accretion onto WDs in the galaxy. In this paper, we show that WD mergers naturally produce highly-magnetized,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-09 Sudarshan Neopane , Khanak Bhargava , Robert Fisher , Mckenzie Ferrari , Shin'ichirou Yoshida , Silvia Toonen , Eduardo Bravo

In this population synthesis work we study a variety of possible origin channels of supernovae type Ia (SNe Ia) Among them mergers of carbon-oxygen (CO) and oxygen-neon (ONe) white dwarfs (WDs) under the influence of gravitational waves are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-17 A. I. Bogomazov , A. V. Tutukov

We compute the remaining amounts of hydrogen in red giant donors to see whether the conflict between theory and observations can be overcome. By considering the mass-stripping effect from an optically thick wind and the effect of thermally…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Xiangcun Meng , Wuming Yang

In the single degenerate scenario for Type Ia supernova (SNeIa), a white dwarf (WD) must gain a significant amount of matter from a companion star. Because the accreted mass carries angular momentum, the WD is likely to achieve fast spin…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 R. Di Stefano , R. Voss , J. S. W. Claeys

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are thought to be thermonuclear explosion of white dwarfs (WDs). Their progenitors are not well understood. One popular scenario is the double-degenerate (DD) scenario, which attributes SNe Ia to WD-WD binary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-17 Kanji Mori , Michael A. Famiano , Toshitaka Kajino , Motohiko Kusakabe , Xiaodong Tang

Even though Type Ia supernovae (SNIa) play an important role in many fields in astronomy, the nature of the progenitors of SNIa remain a mystery. One of the classical evolutionary pathways towards a SNIa explosion is the single degenerate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-17 S. Toonen

Despite the importance of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) throughout astronomy, the precise progenitor systems and explosion mechanisms that drive SNe Ia are still unknown. An explosion scenario that has gained traction recently is the double…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-13 Samuel J. Boos , Dean M. Townsley , Ken J. Shen , Spencer Caldwell , Broxton J. Miles

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

The progenitor systems accounting for explosions of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) is still under debate. Symbiotic channel is one of the possible progenitor scenarios, in which the WDs in these systems increase in mass through wind accretion…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 Chengyuan Wu , Dongdong Liu , Xiaofeng Wang , Bo Wang

Based mostly on stellar models which do not include rotation, CO white dwarfs which accrete helium at rates of about $\sim 10^{-8}~\mathrm{M}_\odot/\mathrm{yr}$ have been put forward as candidate progenitors for a number of transient…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-14 P. Neunteufel , S. -C. Yoon , N. Langer
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