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On the progenitors of super-Chandrasekhar mass type Ia supernovae
Wen-Cong Chen, Xiang-Dong Li
Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) can be used as the standard candlelight to determine the cosmological distances because they are thought to have a uniform fuel amount. Recent observati…
astro-ph.HE2009★ 10 cited
Can angular momentum loss cause the period change of NN Ser?
Wen-Cong Chen
NN Ser is a non mass-transferring pre-cataclysmic variable containing a white dwarf with a mass of and an M dwarf secondary star with a mass of $\sim 0.2 M_{\o…