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Context. The companions of the exploding carbon-oxygen white dwarfs (CO WDs) for producing type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are still not conclusively confirmed. A red-giant (RG) star has been suggested to be the mass donor of the exploding WD,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 Dongdong Liu , Bo Wang , Hongwei Ge , Xuefei Chen , Zhanwen Han

The nature of the progenitors of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) is still unclear. In this paper, by considering the effect of the instability of accretion disk on the evolution of white dwarf (WD) binaries, we performed binary evolution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-29 Bo Wang , Xiang-Dong Li , Zhan-Wen Han

Recent investigations on the delay time of type Ia supernovae have set useful constraints on the progenitors of type Ia supernovae. Here we have calculated the evolution of close binaries consisting of a white dwarf and a main-sequence or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-19 Wen-Cong Chen , Xiang-Dong Li

The nature of progenitors of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) and their explosion mechanism remain unclear. It has been suggested that SNe Ia may be resulted from thermonuclear explosions of hybrid carbon-oxygen-neon white dwarfs(CONe WDs) when…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-03 Boyang Guo , Xiangcun Meng , Zhijia Tian , Jingxiao Luo , Zhengwei Liu

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are successful cosmological distance indicators and important element factories in the chemical evolution of galaxies. They are generally thought to originate from thermonuclear explosions of carbon-oxygen white…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-25 Yun-Lang Guo , Bo Wang , Cheng-Yuan Wu , Wen-Cong Chen , Long Jiang , Zhan-Wen Han

The community agrees that Type Ia supernovae arise from Carbon/Oxygen white dwarfs undergoing thermonuclear runaway. However, the full progenitor system and the process that prompts the white dwarf to explode remain unknown. Most current…

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) play a prominent role in understanding the evolution of Universe. They are thought to be thermonuclear explosions of mass-accreting carbon-oxygen white dwarfs (CO WDs) in binaries, although the mass donors of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-14 Bo Wang

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) play an important role in astrophysics and are crucial for the studies of stellar evolution, galaxy evolution and cosmology. They are generally thought to be thermonuclear explosions of accreting carbon-oxygen…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-14 Bo Wang , Zhanwen Han

Limits on the companions of white dwarfs in the single degenerate scenario for the origin of Type Ia supernovae (SNIa) have gotten increasingly tight. The only type of non-degenerate stars that survive the limits on the companions of SNIa…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 J. Craig Wheeler

We compute the remaining amounts of hydrogen in red giant donors to see whether the conflict between theory and observations can be overcome. By considering the mass-stripping effect from an optically thick wind and the effect of thermally…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Xiangcun Meng , Wuming Yang

The progenitor systems and explosion mechanism of Type Ia supernovae are still unknown. Currently favoured progenitors include double-degenerate systems consisting of two carbon-oxygen white dwarfs with thin helium shells. In the…

A significant number of hypervelocity stars with velocities between $1500-2500$ km/s have recently been observed. The only plausible explanation so far is that they have been produced through thermonuclear supernovae in white dwarf…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-25 Aakash Bhat , Rüdiger Pakmor , Ken J. Shen , Evan B. Bauer , Abinaya Swaruba Rajamuthukumar

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 is wide agreement that Type Ia supernovae (used as standard candles for cosmology) are associated with the thermonuclear explosions of white dwarf stars. The nuclear runaway that leads to the explosion could start in a white dwarf…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Marat Gilfanov , Akos Bogdan

Type Ia supernovae are thought to be caused by thermonuclear explosions of a carbon-oxygen white dwarf in close binary systems. In the single-degenerate scenario (SDS), the companion star is non-degenerate and can be significantly affected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Kuo-Chuan Pan , Paul Ricker , Ronald Taam

The creation of "hybrid" white dwarfs, made of a C-O core within a O-Ne shell has been proposed, and studies indicate that ignition in the C-rich central region makes these viable progenitors for thermonuclear (type Ia) supernovae. Recent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Carlyn N. Augustine , Donald E. Willcox , Jared Brooks , Dean M. Townsley , Alan C. Calder

Hot subdwarf (SD) stars are the stripped cores of red giant stars in transition to the white dwarf sequence. The B-type subdwarfs (sdB) are powered by helium fusion in the core, more evolved ones (sdO) by shell burning. Low mass SDs may…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-05 Ulrich Heber

Type Ia supernovae are key tools for measuring distances on a cosmic scale. They are generally thought to be the thermonuclear explosion of an accreting white dwarf in a close binary system. The nature of the mass donor is still uncertain.…

Hot subdwarf stars (sdO/Bs) are evolved core helium-burning stars with very thin hydrogen envelopes, which can be formed by common envelope ejection. Close sdB binaries with massive white dwarf (WD) companions are potential progenitors of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-12 S. Geier , T. Kupfer , U. Heber , P. Nemeth , E. Ziegerer , A. Irrgang , M. Schindewolf , T. R. Marsh , B. T. Gänsicke , B. N. Barlow , S. Bloemen