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2015MNRAS.447.2803L - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 447, 2803-2809 (2015/March-1)

Constraining the double-degenerate scenario for Type Ia supernovae from merger ejected matter.

LEVANON N., SOKER N. and GARCIA-BERRO E.

Abstract (from CDS):

We follow the mass expelled during the WD-WD merger process in a particular case of the double-degenerate (DD) scenario for Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), and find that the interaction of the SN ejecta with the resulting wind affects the early (first day) light-curve in a way that may be in conflict with some SN Ia observations, if the detonation occurs shortly after the merger, i.e. (103s ≲ texp ≲ 1d). The main source of the expelled mass is a disc-wind, or jets that are launched by the accretion disc around the more massive white dwarf (WD) during the viscous phase of the merger. This disc-originated matter will be shocked and heated by the SN ejecta from an explosion, leading to additional radiation in the early light-curve. This enhanced early radiation could then be interpreted as an explosion originating from a progenitor having an inferred radius of one solar radius or more, in conflict with observations of SN 2011fe.

Abstract Copyright: © 2015 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society (2014)

Journal keyword(s): accretion, accretion discs - hydrodynamics - binaries: close - supernovae: general - white dwarfs

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