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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

Our aim is to show how different hypotheses about Type Ia supernova progenitors can affect Galactic chemical evolution. We include different Type Ia SN progenitor models, identified by their distribution of time delays, in a very detailed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 F. Matteucci , E. Spitoni , S. Recchi , R. Valiante

Thermonuclear (type Ia) supernovae are bright stellar explosions with the unique property that the light curves can be standardized, allowing them to be used as distance indicators for cosmological studies. Many fundamental questions bout…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-02 Alan C. Calder , Don E. Willcox , Christopher J. DeGrendele , Desmond Shangase , Michael Zingale , Dean M. Townsley

Type-Ia supernovae (SNe), or runaway thermonuclear explosions of white dwarfs (WDs), play a critical role in the chemical evolution of galaxies, and are important cosmological distance indicators due to their 'standardizable' lightcurves.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-15 Soham Mandal , Núria Torres-Albà , Carles Badenes , Shazrene Mohamed

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

The environmental dependence of Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) luminosities is well-established, and efforts are being made to find its origin. Previous studies typically use the currently-observed status of the host galaxy. However, given the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-21 Young-Lo Kim , Lluís Galbany , Isobel Hook , Yijung Kang

It has been widely accepted that Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are thermonuclear explosions of a CO white dwarf. However, the natures of the progenitor system(s) and explosion mechanism(s) are still unclarified. Thanks to the recent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-19 Mao Ogawa , Keiichi Maeda , Miho Kawabata

The progenitors of SNe Ia are not yet fully understood. The two leading progenitor scenarios are the single-degenerate (SD) scenario and the double-degenerate scenario. In the SD scenario, the collision of the SN Ia ejecta with its…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-05 Zheng-Wei Liu , Takashi J. Moriya , Richard J. Stancliffe

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) play a crucial role as standardizable candles in measurements of the Hubble constant and dark energy. Increasing evidence points towards multiple possible explosion channels as the origin of normal SNe Ia, with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-30 Vishal Tiwari , Or Graur , Robert Fisher , Ivo Seitenzahl , Shing-Chi Leung , Ken'ichi Nomoto , Hagai Binyamin Perets , Ken Shen

We give an overview of the current understanding of Type Ia supernovae relevant for their use as cosmological distance indicators. We present the physical basis to understand their homogeneity of the observed light curves and spectra and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Hoeflich

We explore SNe Ia as p-process sites in the framework of two-dimensional SN Ia delayed detonation and pure deflagration models. The WD precursor is assumed to have reached the Chandrasekhar mass in a binary system by mass accretion from a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Claudia Travaglio , Fritz Roepke , Roberto Gallino , Wolfgang Hillebrandt

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

(${Abridged~version}$) We review how the single degenerate models for Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) works. In the binary star system of a white dwarf (WD) and its non-degenerate companion star, the WD accretes either H-rich matter or He and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-26 Ken'ichi Nomoto , Shing-Chi Leung

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

The recent detection of H-alpha emission in the supernova Type Ia SN 2002ic could be taken to mean that the elusive progenitor systems of Type Ia supernovae have finally been identified. At first glance, the observation appears to support a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Mario Livio , Adam Riess

Merging white dwarfs are a possible progenitor of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). While it is not entirely clear if and when an explosion is triggered in such systems, numerical models suggest that a detonation might be initiated before the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Rainer Moll , Cody Raskin , Daniel Kasen , Stan Woosley

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) play an important role throughout astrophysics, most notably as standardizable cosmological candles. Yet, their stellar progenitors and explosion mechanism remain areas of active investigation. For decades, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-22 Krut Patel , Akshay Dongre , Robert Fisher , Alexei Poludnenko , Vadim Gamezo , Mark Ugalino , Chris Byrohl

The classic single-degenerate model for the progenitors of Type Ia Supernova (SN Ia) predicts that the supernova ejecta should be enriched with solar-like abundance material stripped from the companion star. Spectroscopic observations of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-06 Janos Botyanszki , Daniel Kasen , Tomasz Plewa

Using three independent directions we estimate that the fraction of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) exploding inside planetary nebulae (PNe), termed SNIPs,is at least ~20%. Our three directions are as follows. (i) Taking the variable sodium…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-05 Danny Tsebrenko , Noam Soker

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