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Supersoft X-ray sources (SSSs) are known as possible progenitors of Type Ia supernovae. The quasi-periodic variability has been detected in the optical light curves of SSSs. However, the exact origin of such quasi-periodic observable…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Weitao Zhao , Xiangcun Meng , Yingzheng Cui , Zheng-Wei Liu

We investigate mass ejection from accretion disks formed during the collapse of rapidly-rotating Wolf-Rayet stars. The neutrino-cooled, black hole (BH) accretion disk system that forms at the center of the star -- and the ensuing outflows…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-15 Coleman Dean , Rodrigo Fernández

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 carbon-oxygen white dwarf (CO WD) + He star channel is one of the promising ways for producing type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) with short delay times. Recent studies found that carbon under the He-shell can be ignited if the mass-accretion…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-17 Chengyuan Wu , Bo Wang

The paucity of known High-Mass X-Ray Binaries (HMXB) with naked He donor stars (hereafter He star) in the Galaxy has been noted over the years as a surprising fact, given the significant number of Galactic HMXBs containing H-rich donors,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 T. Linden , F. Valsecchi , V. Kalogera

Many binary companions to the central stars of planetary nebulae (PNe) are found to be inflated, perhaps indicating that accretion onto the central star might occur during the PN phase. The discovery of a handful of nova eruptions and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-01 D. Souropanis , A. Chiotellis , P. Boumis , D. Jones , S. Akras

We conduct the first 3D hydrodynamic simulations of oxygen-neon white dwarf-neutron star/black hole mergers (ONe WD-NS/BH mergers). Such mergers constitute a significant fraction, and may even dominate, the inspiral rates of all WD-NS…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-17 Alexey Bobrick , Yossef Zenati , Hagai B. Perets , Melvyn B. Davies , Ross Church

We perform hydrodynamic simulations of mass transfer in binaries that contain a white dwarf and a neutron star (WD-NS binaries), and measure the specific angular momentum of material lost from the binary in disc winds. By incorporating our…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-09 Alexey Bobrick , Melvyn B. Davies , Ross P. Church

The recent discovery of long-period eccentric binaries hosting a He-WD or a sdB star has been challenging binary-star modelling. Based on accurate determinations of the stellar and orbital parameters for IP Eri, a K0 + He-WD system, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-06 L. Siess , P. J. Davis , A. Jorissen

We investigate some physical characteristics of Millisecond Pulsar (MSP) such as magnetic fields, spin periods and masses, that are produced by Accretion Induced Collapse (AIC) of an accreting white dwarf (WD) in stellar binary systems. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Ali Taani , ChengMin Zhang , Mashhoor Al-Wardat , YongHeng Zhao

Supersoft X-ray sources (SSSs) are characterized by persistent thermonuclear burning on the surfaces of white dwarfs (WDs).The standard model requires high mass transfer rates of $\sim 10^{-7}\, {\rm M_{\odot}}\,yr^{-1}$ from massive…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-18 Weitao Zhao , Xiangcun Meng , Yingzhen Cui , Yunlang Guo

Taking into account the rotation of mass-accreting white dwarfs (WDs) whose masses exceed the Chandrasekhar mass, we extend our new single degenerate model for the progenitors of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), accounting for two types of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Izumi Hachisu , Mariko Kato , Ken'ichi Nomoto

The most commonly accepted progenitor system for Type Iax supernovae (SNe Iax) is the partial deflagration of a near-Chandrasekhar-mass white dwarf (WD) accreting from a non-degenerate helium donor star, leaving a bound remnant following…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-03 Kaela J. Lee , Ken J. Shen

Core-collapse supernovae (SNe), marking the deaths of massive stars, are among the most powerful explosions in the Universe, responsible, e.g., for a predominant synthesis of chemical elements in their host galaxies. The majority of massive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 Schuyler D. Van Dyk , Selma E. de Mink , Emmanouil Zapartas

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

Various white-dwarf (WD) binary scenarios have been proposed trying to understand the nature and the diversity of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). In this work, we study the evolution of carbon-oxygen WD -- red giant (RG) binaries (including…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-06 Iminhaji Ablimit , Philipp Podsiadlowski , Rosanne Di Stefano , Saul A. Rappaport , James Wicker

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

The carbon-oxygen white dwarf (CO WD) + He star channel has been thought to be one of the promising scnarios to produce young type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). Previous studies found that if the mass-accretion rate is greater than a critical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-03 Chengyuan Wu , Bo Wang , Xiaofeng Wang , Keiichi Maeda , Paolo Mazzali

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

Type Ia and other peculiar supernovae (SNe) are thought to originate from the thermonuclear explosions of white dwarfs (WDs). Some of the proposed channels involve the ejection of a partly exploded WD (e.g. Iax SN remnant) or the companion…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-07 Andrei P. Igoshev , Hagai Perets , Na'ama Hallakoun