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The dynamically-driven double-degenerate double-detonation model has emerged as a promising progenitor candidate for Type Ia supernovae. In this scenario, the primary white dwarf ignites due to dynamical interaction with a companion white…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-06 J. M. Pollin , S. A. Sim , L. J. Shingles , R. Pakmor , F. P. Callan , C. E. Collins , F. K. Roepke , L. A. Kwok , A. Holas , S. Srivastav

Models for Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) are reviewed. It is shown that there are strong reasons to believe that most SNe Ia represent thermonuclear disruptions of C-O white dwarfs, when these white dwarfs reach the Chandrasekhar limit and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mario Livio

Observations of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) have led to suggestions of multiple progenitor and explosion scenarios. Distinguishing between scenarios and tying specific SNe Ia to individual scenarios however has so far been challenging.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-28 M. R. Magee

Thanks to recent advances in generative AI, computers can now simulate realistic and complex natural processes. We apply this capability to predict how wildfires spread, a task made difficult by the unpredictable nature of fire and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Wenbo Yu , Anirbit Ghosh , Tobias Sebastian Finn , Rossella Arcucci , Marc Bocquet , Sibo Cheng

Observational signatures of the circumstellar material (CSM) around Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) provide a unique perspective on their progenitor systems. The pre-supernova evolution of the SN progenitors may naturally eject CSM in most of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-08 Maokai Hu , Lifan Wang , Xiaofeng Wang

Despite the importance of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) for modern astrophysics, their detailed mechanism is still not fully understood. In this contribution, we present recent findings from numerical explosion models in the context of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-04 Markus Kromer , Sebastian T. Ohlmann , Friedrich K. Roepke

Late-time spectra of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are important in clarifying the physics of their explosions, as they provide key clues to the inner structure of the exploding white dwarfs. We examined late-time optical spectra of 36 SNe…

Thermonuclear supernovae are the result of the violent unbinding of a white dwarf, but the precise nature of the explosion mechanism(s) is a matter of active debate. To this end, several specific scenarios have been proposed to explain the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-21 Fernando Rivas , J. Austin Harris , W. Raphael Hix , O. E. Bronson Messer

We study the gravitationally confined detonation (GCD) model of Type Ia supernovae through the detonation phase and into homologous expansion. In the GCD model, a detonation is triggered by the surface flow due to single point, off-center…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Casey A. Meakin , Ivo Seitenzahl , Dean Townsley , George C. Jordan , James Truran , Don Lamb

Among the important issues in identifying the progenitor system of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), we focus mostly on circumstellar interaction in SN 2002ic, and give brief discussion on the controversial issues of the effects of rotation in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ken'ichi Nomoto , Tomoharu Suzuki , Jinsong Deng , Tatsuhiro Uenishi , Izumi Hachisu

Although type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are very useful in many astrophysical fields, their exact progenitor nature is still unclear. A basic method to distinguish the different progenitor models is to search the signal from the single…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-21 Xiangcun Meng , Zhanwen Han

Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) spectra are compared regarding the coefficient of the largest wavelet scale in their decomposition. Two distinct subgroups were identified and their occurrence is discussed in light of use of SNe Ia as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Vladan Arsenijevic

Motivated by recent models involving off-centre ignition of type Ia supernova explosions, we undertake three-dimensional time-dependent radiation transport simulations to investigate the range of bolometric light curve properties that could…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. A. Sim , D. N. Sauer , F. K. Röpke , W. Hillebrandt

This work presents a numerical study of a diffusion flame in a reacting, two-dimensional, turbulent, viscous, multi-component, compressible mixing layer subject to a large favorable streamwise pressure gradient. The boundary-layer equations…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-01 Sylvain L. Walsh , Lei Zhan , Carsten Mehring , Feng Liu , William A. Sirignano

Context. Type Ia supernovae (SN Ia) have become an invaluable cosmological tool as their exceptional brightness makes them observable even at very large distances (up to redshifts around z~1). To investigate possible systematic differences…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 T. L. Hoffmann , D. N. Sauer , A. W. A. Pauldrach , P. J. N. Hultzsch

The nature of Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) progenitor systems and the mechanisms that lead up to their explosions are still widely debated. In rare cases the SN ejecta interact with circumstellar material (CSM) that was ejected from the…

By means of 3D hydrodynamic simulations, we study how Type Ia supernovae (SNe) explosions affect the star formation history and the chemical properties of second generation (SG) stars in globular clusters (GC). SG stars are assumed to form…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-18 Elena Lacchin , Francesco Calura , Enrico Vesperini

We describe a research program to improve the understanding of Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) by modeling and observing near infrared (NIR) spectra of these events. The NIR between 0.9 microns and 2.5 microns is optimal for examining certain…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. H. Marion , P. Hoeflich , J. C. Wheeler

Type Ia supernovae, the thermonuclear explosions of white dwarf stars composed of carbon and oxygen, were instrumental as distance indicators in establishing the acceleration of the universe's expansion. However, the physics of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 P. A. Mazzali , F. K. Roepke , S. Benetti , W. Hillebrandt

Thanks to a stellar evolution code able to compute through the C-flash we link the binary population synthesis of single degenerate progenitors of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) to their physical condition at the time of ignition. We show that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 P. Lesaffre , Z. Han , C. A. Tout , Ph. Podsiadlowski , R. G. Martin