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 …

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 …

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 …

Type Ia supernova distances at redshift> 1.5 from the Hubble space telescope multi-cycle treasury programs: the early expansion rate

AG Riess, SA Rodney, DM Scolnic… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Type Ia Supernova Distances at Redshift >1.5 from the Hubble Space Telescope Multi-cycle
Treasury Programs: The Early Expansion Rate - IOPscience This site uses cookies. By …

Three hypervelocity white dwarfs in Gaia DR2: Evidence for dynamically driven double-degenerate double-detonation type Ia supernovae

KJ Shen, D Boubert, BT Gänsicke, SW Jha… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Double detonations in double white dwarf (WD) binaries undergoing unstable mass transfer
have emerged in recent years as one of the most promising Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) …

The Young Supernova Experiment: survey goals, overview, and operations

DO Jones, RJ Foley, G Narayan, J Hjorth… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Time-domain science has undergone a revolution over the past decade, with tens of
thousands of new supernovae (SNe) discovered each year. However, several observational …

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 …

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 …

Towards an understanding of Type Ia supernovae from a synthesis of theory and observations

W Hillebrandt, M Kromer, FK Röpke, AJ Ruiter - Frontiers of Physics, 2013 - Springer
Motivated by the fact that calibrated light curves of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) have
become a major tool to determine the expansion history of the Universe, considerable …