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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Lunar gravitational-wave antenna

J Harms, F Ambrosino, L Angelini, V Braito… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Monitoring of vibrational eigenmodes of an elastic body excited by gravitational waves was
one of the first concepts proposed for the detection of gravitational waves. At laboratory …

Supernova SN 2011fe from an exploding carbon–oxygen white dwarf star

PE Nugent, M Sullivan, SB Cenko, RC Thomas… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
Type Ia supernovae have been used empirically as 'standard candles' to demonstrate the
acceleration of the expansion of the Universe,, even though fundamental details, such as the …

Normal type Ia supernovae from violent mergers of white dwarf binaries

R Pakmor, M Kromer, S Taubenberger… - The Astrophysical …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
One of the most important questions regarding the progenitor systems of Type Ia
supernovae (SNe Ia) is whether mergers of two white dwarfs can lead to explosions that …

[图书][B] Supernova explosions

D Branch, JC Wheeler - 2017 - Springer
JCW had long wanted to write a new monograph on supernovae. Despite an immense
explosion in the literature and many review articles, there had not been one since that of …

[HTML][HTML] Supernova Type Ia progenitors from merging double white dwarfs-Using a new population synthesis model

S Toonen, G Nelemans, SP Zwart - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2012 - aanda.org
Context. The study of Type Ia supernovae (SNIa) has lead to greatly improved insights into
many fields in astrophysics, eg cosmology, and also into the metal enrichment of the …

Exclusion of a luminous red giant as a companion star to the progenitor of supernova SN 2011fe

W Li, JS Bloom, P Podsiadlowski, AA Miller, SB Cenko… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
Type Ia supernovae are thought to result from a thermonuclear explosion of an accreting
white dwarf in a binary system,, but little is known of the precise nature of the companion star …

The Zwicky Transient Facility census of the local universe. I. Systematic search for calcium-rich gap transients reveals three related spectroscopic subclasses

K De, MM Kasliwal, A Tzanidakis… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Using the Zwicky Transient Facility alert stream, we are conducting a large
spectroscopic campaign to construct a complete, volume-limited sample of transients …

A hybrid type Ia supernova with an early flash triggered by helium-shell detonation

J Jiang, M Doi, K Maeda, T Shigeyama, K Nomoto… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Type Ia supernovae arise from the thermonuclear explosion of white-dwarf stars that have
cores of carbon and oxygen,. The uniformity of their light curves makes these supernovae …