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The double-detonation explosion scenario of Type Ia supernovae has gained increased support from the SN Ia community as a viable progenitor model, making it a promising candidate alongside the well-known single degenerate and double…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-07 Ashley J. Ruiter , Krzysztof Belczynski , Stuart A. Sim , Ivo R. Seitenzahl , Damian Kwiatkowski

We use the redshift distribution of type-Ia supernovae (SNe) discovered by the Supernova Cosmology Project to constrain the star formation history (SFH) of the Universe and SN Ia progenitor models. Given some of the recent determinations of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Avishay Gal-Yam , Dan Maoz

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

I suggest the double-degenerate (DD) scenario with a merger-to-explosion delay (MED) time (the DD-MED scenario) of about 1-2 years to explain the rare properties of the recently analyzed type Ia supernova (SN Ia) SN 2020aeuh. The rare…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-15 Noam Soker

Type Ia supernovae (SNe) are believed to be caused by the thermonuclear explosion of a white dwarf (WD), but the nature of the progenitor system(s) is still unclear. Recent theoretical and observational developments have led to renewed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-18 Gilles Ferrand , Ataru Tanikawa , Donald C. Warren , Shigehiro Nagataki , Samar Safi-Harb , Anne Decourchelle

This Symposium was focused on the hunt for the progenitors of Supernovae of Type Ia. Is there a main channel for the production of SNeIa? If so, are these elusive progenitors Single Degenerate or Double Degenerate systems? Although most…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Lilia Ferrario

The Galactic population of close white dwarf binaries is expected to provide the largest number of gravitational wave sources for low frequency detectors such as the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). Current data analysis…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-26 Alexander Stroeer , Matthew Benacquista , Frank Ceballos

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

We have considered scenarios for the evolution of close binaries resulting in the formation of semi-detached systems in which a white dwarf can accumulate Chandrasekhar mass by accretion from a main-sequence or subgiant companion with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. V. Fedorova , A. V. Tutukov , L. R. Yungelson

Despite the importance of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) throughout astronomy, the precise progenitor systems and explosion mechanisms that drive SNe Ia are still unknown. An explosion scenario that has gained traction recently is the double…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-13 Samuel J. Boos , Dean M. Townsley , Ken J. Shen , Spencer Caldwell , Broxton J. Miles

We briefly discuss the method of population synthesis to calculate theoretical delay time distributions of type Ia supernova progenitors. We also compare the results of the different research groups and conclude that although one of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Gijs Nelemans , Silvia Toonen , Madelon Bours

This paper presents a short review on the current state of SN Ia progenitor origin. Type Ia supernova explosions are observed to be widely diverse in peak luminosity, lightcurve width and shape, spectral features, and host stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 Ashley J. Ruiter

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

The nearby supernova SN 2011fe can be observed in unprecedented detail. Therefore, it is an important test case for Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) models, which may bring us closer to understanding the physical nature of these objects. Here, we…

The nature of the progenitors of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) remains a mystery. Binary systems consisting of a white dwarf (WD) and a main-sequence (MS) donor are potential progenitors of SNe Ia, in which a thermonuclear explosion of the WD…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-17 Zheng-Wei Liu , Richard J. Stancliffe

Natures of progenitors of type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) have not yet been clarified. There has been long and intensive discussion on whether the so-called single degenerate (SD) scenario or the double degenerate (DD) scenario, or anything…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-14 Keiichi Maeda , Yukikatsu Terada

In order for a white dwarf (WD) to achieve the Chandrasekhar mass, M_C, and explode as a Type Ia supernova (SNIa), it must interact with another star, either accreting matter from or merging with it. The failure to identify the types of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Rosanne Di Stefano

To date, the question of which progenitor channel can reproduce the observed rate of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) remains unresolved, with the single and double degenerate scenarios remaining the leading contenders. The former implies a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-07 T. E. Woods , Marat Gilfanov

In the single degenerate scenario for the progenitors of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), a white dwarf rapidly accretes hydrogen- or helium-rich material from its companion star, and appears as a supersoft X-ray source. This picture has been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Iminhaji Ablimit , Xiao-Jie Xu , Xiang-Dong Li