2D simulations of the double-detonation model for thermonuclear transients from low-mass carbon-oxygen white dwarfs

Date

2012

Authors

Sim, Stuart A
Fink, M
Kromer, M
Ropke, F. K.
Ruiter, A. J.
Hillebrandt, Wolfgang

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Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Abstract

Thermonuclear explosions may arise in binary star systems in which a carbon-oxygen (CO) white dwarf (WD) accretes helium-rich material from a companion star. If the accretion rate allows a sufficiently large mass of helium to accumulate prior to ignition

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Keywords: Binaries: close; Hydrodynamics; Methods: numerical; Radiative transfer; Supernovae: general; White dwarfs

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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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2037-12-31