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We perform binary evolution calculations on helium star - carbon-oxygen white dwarf (CO WD) binaries using the stellar evolution code MESA. This single degenerate channel may contribute significantly to thermonuclear supernovae at short…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-26 Tin Long Sunny Wong , Josiah Schwab

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

Observations suggest that some massive stars experience violent and eruptive mass loss associated with significant brightening that cannot be explained by hydrostatic stellar models. This event seemingly forms dense circumstellar matter…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-19 Naoto Kuriyama , Toshikazu Shigeyama

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

Sub-Chandrasekhar mass carbon-oxygen white dwarfs (CO WDs) with a surface helium (He) shell have been proposed as progenitors of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). If true, the resulting thermonuclear explosions should be able to account for at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-08 Sabrina Gronow , Christine E. Collins , Stuart A. Sim , Friedrich K. Roepke

The nature of Type Ia supernova progenitors is still unclear. The outstanding characteristic of the single-degenerate scenario is that it contains hydrogen in the binary companion of the exploding white dwarf star, which, if mixed into the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Pakmor , F. K. Roepke , A. Weiss , W. Hillebrandt

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

We have been proposing two evolutionary paths to Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), which are called the supersoft X-ray source (SSS) channel and the symbiotic channel, depending on the orbital separation just prior to an SN Ia explosion. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Izumi Hachisu

As a promising channel to Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), we have proposed a symbiotic binary system consisting of a white dwarf (WD) and a low mass red-giant (RG), where strong winds from the accreting WD play a key role to increase the WD…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Izumi Hachisu , Mariko Kato , Ken'ichi Nomoto

Helium-core white dwarfs (He WDs) formed through common envelope (CE) evolution offer valuable insight into binary interaction channels and compact remnant formation. Their cooling rates critically impact both detectability and age…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-23 Leandro G. Althaus , Leila M. Calcaferro , Alejandro H. Córsico , Warren R. Brown

Recent discovery of several overluminous type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) indicates that the explosive masses of white dwarfs may significantly exceed the canonical Chandrasekhar mass limit. Rapid differential rotation may support these massive…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 W. -M. Liu , W. -C. Chen , B. Wang , Z. W. Han

Recent observations suggest that some type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) originate from the merging of two carbon-oxygen white dwarfs (CO WDs). Meanwhile, recent hydrodynamical simulations have indicated that the accretion-induced collapse may be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-08 Dongdong Liu , Bo Wang , Philipp Podsiadlowski , Zhanwen Han

In the single degenerate scenario for the progenitors of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), a white dwarf rapidly accretes hydrogen- or helium-rich material from its companion star, and appears as a supersoft X-ray source. This picture has been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Iminhaji Ablimit , Xiao-Jie Xu , Xiang-Dong Li

Explaining the observed diversity of supernovae (SNe) and the physics of explosion requires knowledge of their progenitor stars, which can be obtained by constraining the circumstellar medium (CSM). Models of the SN ejecta colliding with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-20 Chelsea E. Harris , Peter E. Nugent

We study stellar binary evolution that leads to the formation of a white dwarf (WD) that explodes in a thermonuclear supernova at the termination of a common envelope evolution (CEE) shortly before the core of its companion explodes as a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-14 Ealeal Bear , Noam Soker

Modeling the evolution of progenitors of gravitational-wave merger events in binary stars faces two major uncertainties: the common-envelope phase and supernova kicks. These two processes are critical for the final orbital configuration of…

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

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

The progenitor problem of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) is still unsolved. Most of these events are thought to be explosions of carbon-oxygen (CO) white dwarfs (WDs), but for many of the explosion scenarios, particularly those involving the…

We have carried out a detailed study of one of the most popular evolutionary channels for the production of Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) progenitors, the semi-degenerate channel (CO+MS), where a carbon/oxygen (CO) white dwarf (WD) accretes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Zhanwen Han , Philipp Podsiadlowski