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I propose a new type of common envelope jets supernova (CEJSN) events where instead of a single neutron star (NS; or a black hole; BH) a tight binary system of a NS and a main sequence star enters a common envelope evolution (CEE) with a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-12 Noam Soker

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are important cosmological tools, probes of binary star evolution, and contributors to cosmic metal enrichment; yet, a definitive understanding of the binary star systems that produce them remains elusive. In…

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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 accretion of hydrogen-rich material onto carbon-oxygen white dwarfs (CO WDs) is crucial for understanding type Ia supernova (SN Ia) from the single-degenerate model, but this process has not been well understood due to the numerical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Xin Ma , Xuefei Chen , Hailiang Chen , Pavel A. Denissenkov , Zhanwen Han

Common envelope evolution (CEE) physics plays a fundamental role in the formation of binary systems, such as mergering stellar gravitational wave sources, pulsar binaries and type Ia supernovae. A precisely constrained CEE has become more…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-18 Hongwei Ge , Christopher A Tout , Xuefei Chen , Matthias U Kruckow , Hailiang Chen , Dengkai Jiang , Zhenwei Li , Zhengwei Liu , Zhanwen Han

The light curves and spectra of many Type I and Type II supernovae (SNe) are heavily influenced by the interaction of the SN ejecta with circumstellar material (CSM) surrounding the progenitor star. The observed diversity shows that many…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-23 Andrea Ercolino

Type Ibn supernovae (SNe) are a class of SN explosions whose progenitors are surrounded by dense helium-rich circumstellar matter (CSM). Some models have been proposed for how to form the dense CSM, with promising scenarios involving either…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-28 Takatoshi Ko , Tomoya Kinugawa , Daichi Tsuna , Ryosuke Hirai , Yuki Takei

Supernova 2002ic was an atypical Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) with evidence for substantial amounts of hydrogen associated with the system. Contrary to previous claims, we show that its unusual properties can be understood within the framework…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Zhanwen Han , Philipp Podsiadlowski

In the version of the SD scenario of SNe Ia studied here, a CO WD explodes close to the Chandrasekhar limit after accreting material from a non-degenerate He companion. In the present study, we employ the Stellar GADGET code to perform 3D…

Supernovae Type Iax (SNe Iax) are less energetic and less luminous than typical thermonuclear explosions. A suggested explanation for the observed characteristics of this subclass is a binary progenitor system consisting of a CO white dwarf…

The common envelope evolution (CEE) is vital in forming short orbital period compact binaries. It covers many objects, such as double compact merging binaries, type Ia supernovae progenitors, binary pulsars, and X-ray binaries. Knowledge…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-18 Hongwei Ge , Christopher A Tout , Ronald F Webbink , Xuefei Chen , Arnab Sarkar , Jiao Li , Zhenwei Li , Lifu Zhang , Zhanwen Han

Type Ia supernovae (SNe) serve as a fundamental pillar of modern cosmology, owing to their large luminosity and a well-defined relationship between light-curve shape and peak brightness. The precision distance measurements enabled by SNe Ia…

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

SN 2002ic is a unique supernova which shows the typical spectral features of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) near maximum light, but also apparent hydrogen features that have been absent in SNe Ia. We have calculated hydrodynamical models for…

A thermonuclear explosion triggered by a helium-shell detonation on a carbon-oxygen white dwarf core has been predicted to have strong UV line blanketing at early times due to the iron-group elements produced during helium-shell burning. We…

A rare class of supernovae (SNe) is characterized by strong interaction between the ejecta and several solar masses of circumstellar matter (CSM) as evidenced by strong Balmer-line emission. Within the first few weeks after the explosion,…

It has recently been proposed that one sub-class of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) is sufficiently both distinct and common to be classified separately from the bulk of SNe Ia, with a suggested class name of "type Iax supernovae" (SNe Iax),…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Bo Wang , Stephen Justham , Zhanwen Han

The nature of the progenitors of SNe Ia is not yet fully understood. In the single-degenerate (SD) scenario, the collision of the SN ejecta with its companion star is expected to produce detectable UV emission in the first few days after…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-06 Zheng-Wei Liu , Richard J. Stancliffe

Recent observations of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) suggest that some of the progenitor white dwarfs (WDs) had masses up to 2.4-2.8 M_sun, highly exceeding the Chandrasekhar mass limit. We present a new single degenerate (SD) model for SN Ia…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Izumi Hachisu , Mariko Kato , Hideyuki Saio , Ken'ichi Nomoto