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Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are runaway thermonuclear explosions in white dwarfs that result in the disruption of the white dwarf star, and possibly its nearby stellar companion. SNe Ia occur over an immense range of stellar population age…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-03 Ashley J. Ruiter , Ivo R. Seitenzahl

Type Ia supernovae (SNe) are thought to originate from the thermonuclear explosions of carbon-oxygen (CO) white dwarfs (WDs). The proposed progenitors of standard type Ia SNe have been studied for decades and can be, generally, divided into…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-18 Hagai B. Perets , Yossef Zenati , Silvia Toonen , Alexey Bobrick

There are two classes of viable progenitors for normal Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia): systems in which a white dwarf explodes at the Chandrasekhar mass ($M_{ch}$), and systems in which a white dwarf explodes below the Chandrasekhar mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-31 Daniel A. Goldstein , Daniel Kasen

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

Abridged. In the double detonation scenario for Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) a detonation initiates in a shell of He-rich material accreted from a companion star by a sub-Chandrasekhar-mass White Dwarf (WD). This shell detonation drives a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-08-18 M. Kromer , S. A. Sim , M. Fink , F. K. Roepke , I. R. Seitenzahl , W. Hillebrandt

We investigate radioactivity from the decay sequence of 44Ti in young supernova remnants (SNRs), Cassiopeia A (Cas A) and SN 1987A. It is shown by a linear analysis that ionization of 44Ti, a pure electron capture decay isotope, affects the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yuko Motizuki , Shiomi Kumagai

Type Ia SNe (SNe Ia) are thought to come from carbon-oxygen white dwarfs that accrete mass from binary companions until they approach the Chandrasekhar limit, ignite carbon, and undergo complete thermonuclear disruption. A survey of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Parthasarathy , David Branch , David J. Jeffery , E. Baron

Supernovae (SNe) are thought to arise from two different physical processes. The cores of massive, short-lived stars undergo gravitational core collapse and typically eject a few solar masses during their explosion. These are thought to…

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are likely the thermonuclear explosions of carbon-oxygen (CO) white-dwarf (WD) stars, but their progenitor systems remain elusive. Recently, Sharon & Kushnir (2022) used The Zwicky Transient Facility Bright…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-01 Arka Ghosh , Doron Kushnir

Type Ia supernovae are understood to arise from the thermonuclear explosion of a carbon-oxygen white dwarf, yet the evolutionary mechanisms leading to such events remain unknown. Many proposed channels, including the classical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-23 Or Graur , Tyrone E. Woods

The amount of $^{56}$Ni produced in type Ia supernova (SN Ia) explosion is probably the most important physical parameter underlying the observed correlation of SN Ia luminosities with their light curves. Based on an empirical relation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Bo Wang , Xiangcun Meng , Xiaofeng Wang , Zhanwen Han

Type Ia supernovae are thought to be the outcome of the thermonuclear explosion of a carbon/oxygen white dwarf in a close binary system. Their optical light curve is powered by thermalized gamma-rays produced by the radioactive decay of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-11 J. Isern , E. Bravo , P. Jean

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…

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 (SNe Ia) correspond to the thermonuclear explosion of a carbon-oxygen white dwarf (C-O WD) star in a binary system, triggered by the accretion of material from another star, or the merger/collision with a secondary WD.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-06 Stéphane Blondin

Context: Tracing unstable isotopes produced in supernova nucleosynthesis provides a direct diagnostic of supernova explosion physics. Theoretical models predict an extensive variety of scenarios, which can be constrained through…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-24 Christoph Weinberger , Roland Diehl , Moritz M. M. Pleintinger , Thomas Siegert , Jochen Greiner

Models for Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) are reviewed. It is shown that there are strong reasons to believe that SNe Ia represent thermonuclear disruptions of C-O white dwarfs, when these white dwarfs reach the Chandrasekhar limit and ignite…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Livio

Although type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are very useful in many astrophysical fields, their exact progenitor nature is still unclear. A basic method to distinguish the different progenitor models is to search the signal from the single…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-21 Xiangcun Meng , Zhanwen Han

In recent years, with an increasing number of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) discovered soon after their explosions, a non-negligible fraction of SNe Ia with early-excess emissions (EExSNe Ia) have been confirmed. In this letter, we present a…

In the single degenerate (SD) scenario of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), the collision of the ejecta with its companion results in stripping hydrogen rich matter from the companion star. This hydrogen rich matter might leave its trace in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Masamichi Kutsuna , Toshikazu Shigeyama