SPIRAL INSTABILITY CAN DRIVE THERMONUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS IN BINARY WHITE DWARF MERGERS

ABSTRACT Thermonuclear, or Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), originate from the explosion of carbon-oxygen white dwarfs, and serve as standardizable cosmological candles. However, despite their importance, the nature of the progenitor systems that give rise to SNe Ia has not been hitherto elucidated. Obs...

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Veröffentlicht in:Astrophysical journal. Letters 2015-02, Vol.800 (1), p.1-6
Hauptverfasser: Kashyap, Rahul, Fisher, Robert, García-Berro, Enrique, Aznar-Siguán, Gabriela, Ji, Suoqing, Lorén-Aguilar, Pablo
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