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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 community agrees that Type Ia supernovae arise from Carbon/Oxygen white dwarfs undergoing thermonuclear runaway. However, the full progenitor system and the process that prompts the white dwarf to explode remain unknown. Most current…

The progenitor systems of Type-Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are yet unknown. The collisional-triple SN Ia progenitor model posits that SNe Ia result from head-on collisions of binary white dwarfs (WDs), driven by dynamical perturbations by the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 Na'ama Hallakoun , Dan Maoz

At this moment, the use of SNIa for cosmology lies on the assumption that the SNe at high redshifts are equal to the local ones. However, some observations indicate a correlation between the light curve (LC) properties and the morphological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Inma Dominguez , Peter Hoeflich , Oscar Straniero

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) exhibit a wide diversity of peak luminosities and light curve shapes: the faintest SNe Ia are 10 times less luminous and evolve more rapidly than the brightest SNe Ia. Their differing characteristics also extend…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-27 Ken J. Shen , Silvia Toonen , Or Graur

In the favored progenitor scenario, Type Ia supernovae arise from a white dwarf accreting material from a non-degenerate companion star. Soon after the white dwarf explodes, the ejected supernova material engulfs the companion star;…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Daniel Kasen , Peter Nugent , R. C. Thomas , Lifan Wang

Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) are the thermonuclear explosion of a carbon-oxygen white dwarf (WD) and are well-known as a distance indicator. However, it is still unclear how WDs increase their mass near the Chandrasekhar limit and how the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-27 Maokai Hu , Lei Hu , Ji-an Jiang , Lin Xiao , Lulu Fan , Junjie Wei , Xuefeng Wu

Late-time spectra of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are important in clarifying the physics of their explosions, as they provide key clues to the inner structure of the exploding white dwarfs. We examined late-time optical spectra of 36 SNe…

SNe Ia play a key role in the fields of astrophysics and cosmology. It is widely accepted that SNe Ia arise from thermonuclear explosions of WDs in binaries. However, there is no consensus on the fundamental aspects of the nature of SN Ia…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-28 Zheng-Wei Liu , Friedrich K. Roepke , Zhanwen Han

The dependence of the Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) rate on galaxy type is examined for three currently proposed scenarios: merging of a Chandrasekhar--mass CO white dwarf (WD) with a CO WD companion, explosion of a sub--Chandrasekhar mass CO…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 P. Ruiz-Lapuente , A. Burkert , R. Canal

The nature of the progenitors of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) is still unclear. In this paper, by considering the effect of the instability of accretion disk on the evolution of white dwarf (WD) binaries, we performed binary evolution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-29 Bo Wang , Xiang-Dong Li , Zhan-Wen Han

Due to the increasing number of observations Type Ia supernovae are nowadays regarded as a heterogeneous class of objects consisting of several subclasses. One of the largest of these is the class of Type Iax supernovae (SNe Iax) which have…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 F. Lach , F. P. Callan , D. Bubeck , F. K. Roepke , S. A. Sim , M. Schrauth , S. T. Ohlmann , M. Kromer

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) have been used as excellent standardizable candles for measuring cosmic expansion, but their progenitors are still elusive. Here we report that the spectral diversity of SNe Ia is tied to their birthplace…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-17 Xiaofeng Wang , Lifan Wang , Alexei V. Filippenko , Tianmeng Zhang , Xulin Zhao

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

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) play an important role in the study of cosmic evolution, especially in cosmology. There are several progenitor models for SNe Ia proposed in the past years. In this paper, by considering the effect of accretion…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-25 Bo Wang , Zhanwen Han

The precise origin of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) is unknown despite their value to numerous areas in astronomy. While it is a long-standing consensus that they arise from an explosion of a carbon/oxygen white dwarf, the exact progenitor…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-10 Samuel J. Boos , Dean M. Townsley , Ken J. Shen

We introduce a metallicity dependence of Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) rate into the Galactic and cosmic chemical evolution models. In our SN Ia progenitor scenario, the accreting white dwarf (WD) blows a strong wind to reach the Chandrasekhar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Chiaki Kobayashi , Takuji Tsujimoto , Ken'ich Nomoto , Izumi Hachisu , Mariko Kato

Type Ia supernovae (SNIa) are thermonuclear explosions of white dwarfs in binary systems. They are central to galactic chemical evolution and serve as standardizable candles in cosmology, yet their progenitors remain uncertain. In this…

Type Ia supernovae, the thermonuclear explosions of white dwarf stars composed of carbon and oxygen, were instrumental as distance indicators in establishing the acceleration of the universe's expansion. However, the physics of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 P. A. Mazzali , F. K. Roepke , S. Benetti , W. Hillebrandt

Several explosions of thermonuclear supernovae (SNe Ia) have been found to exhibit deviations from spherical symmetry upon closer inspection. Examples are the gamma-ray lines from SN 2014J as measured by INTEGRAL/SPI, and morphology…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-15 Shing-Chi Leung , Roland Diehl , Ken'ichi Nomoto , Thomas Siegert