Rotating Type Ia SN progenitors: explosion and light curves
- 1. Dpto. Fisica Teorica y del Cosmos, Universidad de Granada, 18071 Granada (Spain)
- 2. INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Collurania, 64100 Teramo (Italy)
- 3. Dep. Fisica i Enginyeria Nuclear, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, 08028 Barcelona (Spain)
Description
High redshift SNe Ia have been recently used to calibrate the cosmological distance scale and to infer the existence of the dark energy. The reliability of such a method depends on the effective knowledge of the absolute brightness of this class of supernovae. This would require a complete understanding of the physics of SNeIa.Starting from an accreting rotating white dwarf, the only progenitor that we found to be able to grow till the Chandrasekhar mass and undergo a thermonuclear explosion, we simulate the explosion, deriving the nucleosynthesis and the light curve. We explore the final outcome in the framework of a 1D delayed detonation model, where the characteristic density for which the transition from deflagration to detonation takes place is a free parameter.Although preliminary, our results imply that rotating white dwarfs produce a range of explosive conditions, characterized by different ignition densities and total masses. Maximum luminosities of successfully explosive models differ up to 0.11 mag. In a few cases, the formation of a small highly neutronised remnant is found
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1063/1.2130273;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- AIP Conference Proceedings
- Journal Volume
- 797
- Journal Issue
- 1
- Journal Page Range
- p. 497-503
- ISSN
- 0094-243X
- CODEN
- APCPCS
Conference
- Title
- Accretion, evolution, and outcomes
- Acronym
- International astrophysics conference on interacting binaries
- Dates
- 4-10 Jul 2004
- Place
- Cefalu, Sicily (Italy)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 37038168
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; S73: NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- ASTROPHYSICS; DENSITY; DISTANCE; MASS; NONLUMINOUS MATTER; NUCLEOSYNTHESIS; SUPERNOVAE; VISIBLE RADIATION; WHITE DWARF STARS
- Descriptors DEC
- BINARY STARS; DWARF STARS; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ERUPTIVE VARIABLE STARS; MATTER; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; PHYSICS; RADIATIONS; STARS; SYNTHESIS; VARIABLE STARS
Optional Information
- Notes
- (c) 2005 American Institute of Physics