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Supernova Ia are bright explosive events that can be used to estimate cosmological distances, allowing us to study the expansion of the Universe. They are understood to result from a thermonuclear detonation in a white dwarf that formed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-21 Ingrid Pelisoli , P. Neunteufel , S. Geier , T. Kupfer , U. Heber , A. Irrgang , D. Schneider , A. Bastian , J. van Roestel , V. Schaffenroth , B. N. Barlow

The origin of intermediate helium (He)-rich hot subdwarfs are still unclear. Previous studies have suggested that some surviving Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) companions from the white dwarf~+~main-sequence (WD+MS) channel may contribute to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-03 Rui-Jie Ji , Xiang-Cun Meng , Zheng-Wei Liu

Helium accretion induced explosions in CO white dwarfs (WDs) are considered promising candidates for a number of observed types of stellar transients, including supernovae (SNe) of Type Ia and Type Iax. However, a clear favorite outcome has…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-26 P. Neunteufel , S. -C. Yoon , N. Langer

We have found a new evolutionary path to Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) which has been overlooked in previous work. In this scenario, a carbon-oxygen white dwarf (C+O WD) is originated, not from an asymptotic giant branch star with a C+O core,…

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

Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) are securely understood to come from the thermonuclear explosion of a white dwarf as a result of binary interaction, but the nature of that binary interaction and the secondary object is uncertain. Recently, a…

It is thought that type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are explosions of carbon-oxygen white dwarfs (CO WDs). Two main evolutionary channels are proposed for the WD to reach the critical density required for a thermonuclear explosion: the single…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 J. S. W. Claeys , O. R. Pols , R. G. Izzard , J. Vink , F. W. M. Verbunt

Close binaries consisting of a main sequence star and a white dwarf are considered as candidates for Type~Ia supernova progenitors. We present selfconsistent calculations of the time dependence of the structure of the main sequence star,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Langer , A. Deutschmann , S. Wellstein , P. Hoeflich

Employing Eggleton's stellar evolution code with an optically thick wind assumption, we have systematically studied the WD + He star channel of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), in which a carbon-oxygen WD accretes material from a He…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-21 Bo Wang , Zhanwen Han

Following a type Ia supernova (SN Ia) in a double white dwarf (WD) binary, a surviving WD companion leaves at its orbital velocity $\approx 1$,000 - 3,000 km/s. The Gaia mission has discovered seven such hypervelocity WDs with inflated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-19 Tin Long Sunny Wong , Lars Bildsten

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

Normal type Ia supernovae (SNe) are thought to arise from the thermonuclear explosion of massive ($>0.8$ M$_\odot$) carbon-oxygen white dwarfs (WDs), although the exact mechanism is debated. In some models helium accretion onto a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 Ruediger Pakmor , Yossef Zenati , Hagai B. Perets , Silvia Toonen

Some surviving companions of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) from the white-dwarf + main-sequence (WD + MS) channel may evolve to hot subdwarfs. In this paper, we preformed stellar evolution calculations for surviving companions of close WD +…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-22 Xiangcun Meng , Yangpin Luo

Hot subdwarfs (sdO/B) are the stripped helium cores of red giants formed by binary interactions. Close hot subdwarf binaries with massive white dwarf companions have been proposed as possible progenitors of thermonuclear supernovae type Ia…

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are manifestations of stars deficient of hydrogen and helium disrupting in a thermonuclear runaway. While explosions of carbon-oxygen white dwarfs are thought to account for the majority of events, part of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-11 John Antoniadis , Savvas Chanlaridis , Götz Gräfener , Norbert Langer

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) have been an important tool for astronomy for quite some time; however, the nature of their progenitors remains somewhat mysterious. Recent theoretical studies indicated the possibility of producing thermonuclear…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-13 P. Neunteufel , S. -C. Yoon , N. Langer

Helium star - carbon-oxygen white dwarf (CO WD) binaries are potential single-degenerate progenitor systems of thermonuclear supernovae. Revisiting a set of binary evolution calculations using the stellar evolution code $\texttt{MESA}$, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Tin Long Sunny Wong , Josiah Schwab , Ylva Götberg

We study the possibility that Type Ia supernovae might be produced by binary systems where the companion of the exploding white dwarf is an M-dwarf star. Such companion would appear as a runaway star, retaining its pre-explosion orbital…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-04 Kuo-Chuan Pan , Pilar Ruiz-Lapuente , Jonay I. González Hernández

We conduct numerical simulations of the interacting ejecta from an exploding CO white dwarf (WD) with a He WD donor in the double-detonation scenario for Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), and study the possibility of exploding the companion WD.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Oded Papish , Noam Soker , Enrique García-Berro , Gabriela Aznar-Siguán

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

Type Ia supernovae play a significant role in the evolution of the Universe and have a wide range of applications. It is widely believed that these events are the thermonuclear explosions of carbon-oxygen white dwarfs close to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Wolfgang E. Kerzendorf , Brian P. Schmidt , John B. Laird , Philipp Podsiadlowski , Michael S. Bessell