Binary Evolution of Type Ia Supernovae
| dc.creator | Wheeler, J. Craig | |
| dc.date | 1995-12-30 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T02:20:41Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T02:20:41Z | |
| dc.description | 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 Chandrasekhar mass. Such a model accounts well for the ``normal" SN~Ia and for the observed dispersion exemplified by the light curve amplitude-shape relation. The criterion that the white dwarfs involved in this process grow to nearly 1.4 Msun continues to provide a great challenge to understanding the binary stellar evolution involved. The so-called ``supersoft X-ray sources" may provide an important new population of SN~Ia progenitors. Other techniques are being developed that may constrain the binary evolution. | |
| dc.description | LaTex 19 pages, to appear in Evolutionary Processes in Binary Stars (NATO ASI) eds R. A. M. J. Wijers, M. B. Davies, and C. A. Tout (Dordrecht: Reidel). Also available at http://tycho.as.utexas.edu/~wheel/ index.html | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9512171 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9512171 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/10291 | |
| dc.subject | Astrophysics | |
| dc.title | Binary Evolution of Type Ia Supernovae | |
| dc.type | text |