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The origin of the progenitors of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) is still uncertain. The core-degenerate (CD) scenario has been proposed as an alternative way for the production of SNe Ia. In this scenario, SNe Ia are formed at the final stage…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-15 Bo Wang , Weihong Zhou , Zhaoyu Zuo , Yinbi Li , Xia Luo , Jujia Zhang , Dongdong Liu , Chengyuan Wu

The identity of the progenitor systems of type-Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) is a major unsolved problem in astrophysics. SN Ia rates are providing some striking clues. We review the basics of SN rate measurement, preach about some sins of SN rate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Dan Maoz , Filippo Mannucci

The hybrid CONe white dwarfs (WDs) have been suggested to be possible progenitors of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). In this article, we systematically studied the hybrid CONe WD + He star scenario for the progenitors of SNe Ia, in which a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Bo Wang , Xiangcun Meng , Dongdong Liu , Zhengwei Liu , Zhanwen Han

We investigate the contribution to the formation of type Ia supernovae of the single (a white dwarf accreting from a non-degenerate companion) and double (two merging white dwarfs) degenerate scenario, as well as various aspects of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-31 N. Mennekens , D. Vanbeveren , J. P. De Greve

We have carried out a detailed study of the single-degenerate channel for the progenitors of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). In the model, a carbon-oxygen white dwarf (CO WD) accretes hydrogen-rich material from an unevolved or a slightly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xiangcun Meng , Xuefei Chen , Zhanwen Han

Type Ia SNe (SNe Ia) are thought to come from carbon-oxygen white dwarfs that accrete mass from binary companions until they approach the Chandrasekhar limit, ignite carbon, and undergo complete thermonuclear disruption. A survey of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Parthasarathy , David Branch , David J. Jeffery , E. Baron

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

This paper provides a handy tool to compute the impact of Type Ia Supernova (SNIa) on the evolution of stellar systems. An effective formalism is presented to couple the SNIa rate to the star formation history, which rests upon the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-28 Laura Greggio

The delay time distribution (DTD) of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) from star formation is an important clue to reveal the still unknown progenitor system of SNe Ia. Here we report on a measurement of the SN Ia DTD in a delay time range of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Tomonori Totani , Tomoki Morokuma , Takeshi Oda , Mamoru Doi , Naoki Yasuda

Double white dwarf binaries with merger timescales smaller than the Hubble time and with a total mass near the Chandrasekhar limit (i.e. classical Chandrasekhar population) or with high-mass primaries (i.e. sub-Chandrasekhar population) are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-14 A. Rebassa-Mansergas , S. Toonen , V. Korol , S. Torres

Using population synthesis, we study a double-degenerate (DD) scenario for SNe Ia, aiming to estimate the maximum possible contribution to the rate of SNe from this scenario and the dependence of the delay-time distribution (DTD) on it. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-25 L. R. Yungelson , A. G. Kuranov

The progenitor systems of Type-Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are yet unknown. The collisional-triple SN Ia progenitor model posits that SNe Ia result from head-on collisions of binary white dwarfs (WDs), driven by dynamical perturbations by the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 Na'ama Hallakoun , Dan Maoz

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

Type Iax supernovae (SNe~Iax) are the most common class of peculiar SNe. While they are thought to be thermonuclear white-dwarf (WD) SNe, SNe~Iax are observationally similar to, but distinct from SNe~Ia. Unlike SNe~Ia, where roughly 30\%…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-12 Tyler Takaro , Ryan J. Foley , Curtis McCully , Wen-fai Fong , Saurabh W. Jha , Gautham Narayan , Armin Rest , Maximilian Stritzinger , Kevin McKinnon

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

Even though Type Ia supernovae (SNIa) play an important role in many fields in astronomy, the nature of the progenitors of SNIa remain a mystery. One of the classical evolutionary pathways towards a SNIa explosion is the single degenerate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-17 S. Toonen

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) occur in both old, passive galaxies and active, star-forming galaxies. This fact, coupled with the strong dependence of SN Ia rate on star formation rate, suggests that SNe Ia form from stars with a wide range of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Christopher J. Pritchet , D. Andrew Howell , Mark Sullivan

This paper investigates on the possible systematic difference of Supernovae Ia (SN Ia) properties related to the age and masses of the progenitors that could introduce a systematic bias between low and high redshift SN Ia's. The relation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Laura Greggio

Despite the significance of Type Ia supernovae (SNeIa) in many fields in astrophysics, SNeIa lack a theoretical explanation. The standard scenarios involve thermonuclear explosions of carbon/oxygen white dwarfs approaching the Chandrasekhar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-02-05 S. Toonen , G. Nelemans , M. Bours , S. Portegies Zwart , J. Claeys , N. Mennekens , A. Ruiter

The rate of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) in a galaxy depends not only on stellar mass, but also on star formation history. Here we show that two simple observational quantities ($g-r$ or $u-r$ host galaxy color, and $r$-band luminosity),…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-01 Epson Heringer , Chris Pritchet , Jason Kezwer , Melissa L. Graham , David Sand , Chris Bildfell