Deflagrations in hybrid CONe white dwarfs: A route to explain the faint Type Iax supernova 2008ha
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2015
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Kromer, M
Ohlmann, Sebastian
Pakmor, R
Ruiter, Ashley
Hillebrandt, Wolfgang
Marquardt, K S
Ropke, F. K.
Seitenzahl, Ivo
Sim, Stuart
Taubenberger, Stefano
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd
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Stellar evolution models predict the existence of hybrid white dwarfs (WDs) with a carbon- oxygen core surrounded by an oxygen-neon mantle. Being born with masses~1.1M⊙, hybrid WDs in a binary system may easily approach the Chandrasekhar mass (M<inf>Ch</inf>) by accretion and give rise to a thermonuclear explosion. Here,we investigate an off-centre deflagration in a near- MCh hybridWDunder the assumption that nuclear burning only occurs in carbon-rich material. Performing hydrodynamics simulations of the explosion and detailed nucleosynthesis postprocessing calculations, we find that only 0.014M⊙ of material is ejected while the remainder of the mass stays bound. The ejecta consist predominantly of iron-group elements, O, C, Si and S. We also calculate synthetic observables for our model and find reasonable agreement with the faint Type Iax SN 2008ha. This shows for the first time that deflagrations in near-MCh WDs can in principle explain the observed diversity of Type Iax supernovae. Leaving behind a near-M<inf>Ch</inf> bound remnant opens the possibility for recurrent explosions or a subsequent accretion-induced collapse in faint Type Iax SNe, if further accretion episodes occur. From binary population synthesis calculations, we find the rate of hybrid WDs approaching M<inf>Ch</inf> to be of the order of 1 per cent of the Galactic SN Ia rate.
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