Observational clues to the progenitors of type Ia supernovae

D Maoz, F Mannucci, G Nelemans - Annual Review of …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are important distance indicators, element factories, cosmic-ray
accelerators, kinetic-energy sources in galaxy evolution, and end points of stellar binary …

Nucleosynthesis in stars and the chemical enrichment of galaxies

K Nomoto, C Kobayashi… - Annual Review of …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
After the Big Bang, production of heavy elements in the early Universe takes place starting
from the formation of the first stars, their evolution, and explosion. The first supernova …

Type Ia Supernova Explosions in Binary Systems: A Review

ZW Liu, FK Röpke, Z Han - Research in Astronomy and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) play a key role in the fields of astrophysics and
cosmology. It is widely accepted that SNe Ia arise from thermonuclear explosions of white …

Three-dimensional delayed-detonation models with nucleosynthesis for Type Ia supernovae

IR Seitenzahl, F Ciaraldi-Schoolmann… - Monthly Notices of …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
We present results for a suite of 14 three-dimensional, high-resolution hydrodynamical
simulations of delayed-detonation models of Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) explosions. This …

Spectra and Hubble Space Telescope light curves of six type Ia supernovae at 0.511< z< 1.12 and the Union2 compilation

R Amanullah, C Lidman, D Rubin… - The Astrophysical …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
We report on work to increase the number of well-measured Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) at
high redshifts. Light curves, including high signal-to-noise Hubble Space Telescope data …

Observational properties of thermonuclear supernovae

SW Jha, K Maguire, M Sullivan - Nature Astronomy, 2019 - nature.com
The explosive death of a star as a supernova is one of the most dramatic events in the
Universe. Supernovae have an outsized impact on many areas of astrophysics: they are …

Dawes review 6: the impact of companions on stellar evolution

O De Marco, RG Izzard - Publications of the Astronomical Society of …, 2017 - cambridge.org
Astrophysicists are increasingly taking into account the effects of orbiting companions on
stellar evolution. New discoveries have underlined the role of binary star interactions in a …

PTF 11kx: a Type Ia supernova with a symbiotic nova progenitor

B Dilday, DA Howell, SB Cenko, JM Silverman… - Science, 2012 - science.org
There is a consensus that type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) arise from the thermonuclear
explosion of white dwarf stars that accrete matter from a binary companion. However, direct …

Progenitors of type Ia supernovae

B Wang, Z Han - New Astronomy Reviews, 2012 - Elsevier
Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) play an important role in astrophysics and are crucial for the
studies of stellar evolution, galaxy evolution and cosmology. They are generally thought to …

Helium-ignited violent mergers as a unified model for normal and rapidly declining type Ia supernovae

R Pakmor, M Kromer, S Taubenberger… - The Astrophysical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT The progenitors of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are still unknown, despite
significant progress during the past several years in theory and observations. Violent …