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Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are fundamental to cosmology and galactic chemical evolution, yet the nature of their progenitor systems remains unresolved. Multiple evolutionary pathways, including single-degenerate, double-degenerate, and…

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

We present the results of a systematic numerical study of an alternative progenitor scenario to produce type Ia supernova explosions, which is not restricted to the ignition of a CO white dwarf near the Chandrasekhar mass. In this scenario,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 S. Rosswog , D. Kasen , J. Guillochon , E. Ramirez-Ruiz

Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) are securely understood to come from the thermonuclear explosion of a white dwarf as a result of binary interaction, but the nature of that binary interaction and the secondary object is uncertain. Recently, a…

We present a forward-modeling framework for synthesizing Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) populations by coupling cosmological hydrodynamic simulations to binary population synthesis (BPS). Using IllustrisTNG star particles as simple stellar…

Observations of Type Ia supernovae (SN~Ia) combined with modeling of dynamics, light curves and spectra continue to point to the difficult conclusion that SN~Ia result from degenerate ignition in a carbon/oxygen white dwarf of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Craig Wheeler

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

Recurrent novae are binaries harboring a very massive white dwarf (WD), as massive as the Chandrasekhar mass, because of their short recurrence periods of nova outbursts of 10-100 years. Thus, recurrent novae are considered as candidates of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-12 Mariko Kato , Izumi Hachisu

Recent theoretical and observational studies both argue that the merging of double carbon-oxygen white dwarfs (WDs) is responsible for at least some Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). Previous (standard) studies of the anticipated SN birthrate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Xuefei Chen , Jeffery C. Simon , Xianfei Zhang , Zhanwen Han

The mergers of neutron stars (NSs) and white dwarfs (WDs) could give rise to explosive transients, potentially observable with current and future transient surveys. However, the expected properties and distribution of such events is not…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-07 S. Toonen , H. B. Perets , A. P. Igoshev , E. Michaely , Y. Zenati

There is still considerable debate over the progenitors of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). Likewise, it is not agreed how single white dwarfs with masses less than ~0.5 Msun can be formed in the field, even though they are known to exist. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Stephen Justham , Christian Wolf , Philipp Podsiadlowski , Zhanwen Han

The most favored progenitor scenarios for Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) involve the single-degenerate (SD) scenario and the double-degenerate scenario. The absence of stripped hydrogen (H) in the nebular spectra of SNe Ia challenges the SD…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-19 Zheng-Wei Liu , M. Kromer , M. Fink , R. Pakmor , F. K. Roepke , X. F. Chen , B. Wang , Z. W. Han

We calculate the expected number of type Ia supernovae (SN Ia) in the core-degenerate (CD) scenario and find it to match observations within the uncertainties of the code. In the CD scenario the super-Chandrasekhar mass white dwarf (WD) is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Marjan Ilkov , Noam Soker

Recent theoretical and numerical studies of Type Ia supernova explosion within the single-degenerate scenario suggest that the non-degenerate companions could survive during the supernova impact and could be detectable in nearby supernova…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-20 Shiau-Jie Rau , Kuo-Chuan Pan

The potential importance of the angular momentum which is gained by accreting white dwarfs (WDs) has been increasingly recognized in the context of type Ia supernova (SN Ia) single-degenerate model. The expectation that the spin of the WD…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-21 Bo Wang , Stephen Justham , Zhengwei Liu , Jujia Zhang , Dongdong Liu , Zhanwen Han

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are thought to be the result of thermonuclear explosions in white dwarfs (WDs). Commonly considered formation pathways include two merging WDs (the double degenerate channel), and a single WD accreting material…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-14 Abinaya Swaruba Rajamuthukumar , Adrian Hamers , Patrick Neunteufel , Ruediger Pakmor , Selma E. de mink

The single-degenerate model for the progenitors of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) is one of the two most popular models, in which a carbon-oxygen white dwarf (CO WD) accretes hydrogen-rich material from its companion, increases its mass to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Xiangcun Meng , Wuming Yang , Xuemin Geng

Short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) are thought to be primarily associated with binary neutron star (BNS) mergers. The SGRB population can therefore be scrutinized to look for signatures of the delay time between the formation of the progenitor…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-08 Matteo Pracchia , Om Sharan Salafia

We present a brief summary of the Single Degenerate Scenario for the progenitors of Type Ia Supernovae in which it is assumed that a low mass carbon-oxygen white dwarf is growing in mass as a result of accretion from a secondary star in a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-24 S. Starrfield , C. Iliadis , F. X. Timmes , W. R. Hix , W. D. Arnett , C. Meakin , W. M. Sparks

We pursue the investigation of a model for sub-Chandrasekhar supernovae Ia explosions (SNIa) in which the energy stored in the Pauli tower is released to trigger a nuclear deflagration. The simplest physical model for such a degeneracy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-14 L. Clavelli