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arXiv:astro-ph/0309618 (astro-ph)
[Submitted on 23 Sep 2003]

Title:The single degenerate channel for the progenitors of type Ia supernovae

Authors:Zhanwen Han, Philipp Podsiadlowski
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Abstract: We have carried out a detailed study of one of the most popular evolutionary channels for the production of Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) progenitors, the semi-degenerate channel (CO+MS), where a carbon/oxygen (CO) white dwarf (WD) accretes matter from an unevolved or slightly evolved non-degenerate star until it reaches the Chandrasekhar mass limit. Employing Eggleton's stellar evolution code and adopting the prescription of Hachisu et al. (1999) for the accretion efficiency, we have carried out full binary evolution calculations for about 2300 close WD binary systems and mapped out the initial parameters in the orbital period -- secondary mass ($P$--$M_2$) plane (for a range of WD masses) which lead to a successful Type Ia supernova. We obtained accurate, analytical fitting formulae to describe this parameter range which can be used for binary population synthesis (BPS) studies. The contours in the $P$--$M_2$ plane differ from those obtained by Hachisu et al. (1999) for low-mass CO WDs, which are more common than massive CO WDs. We show that white dwarfs with a mass as low as $0.67M_\odot$ can accrete efficiently and reach the Chandrasekhar limit. We have implemented these results in a BPS study to obtain the birthrates for SNe Ia and the evolution of birthrates with time of SNe Ia for both a constant star formation rate and a single star burst. The birthrates are somewhat lower than (but comparable to) those inferred observationally.
Comments: 10 pages, 14 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
Cite as: arXiv:astro-ph/0309618
  (or arXiv:astro-ph/0309618v1 for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.astro-ph/0309618
Journal reference: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.350:1301,2004
Related DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07713.x

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From: Zhanwen Han [view email]
[v1] Tue, 23 Sep 2003 12:20:36 UTC (121 KB)
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