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Rare events of a peculiar thermonuclear supernova that precedes a core collapse supernova

arXiv:2103.07884 · doi:10.1093/mnras/stab1694

Abstract

We study stellar binary evolution that leads to the formation of a white dwarf (WD) that explodes in a thermonuclear supernova at the termination of a common envelope evolution (CEE) shortly before the core of its companion explodes as a core-collapse supernova (CCSN). The CCSN explosion of the core, which is the remnant of a red supergiant (RSG) star, might take place few months to several years after the explosion of the WD as a thermonuclear supernova, i.e., a type Ia peculiar supernova (peculiar SN Ia). Using the evolutionary code MESA-binary we simulate evolution of binary systems with stars of initial masses of 6-7.5Mo. The more massive star, the primary, transfers mass to the secondary star and leaves a CO WD remnant. The secondary becomes massive enough to end in a CCSN. As the secondary evolves to the RSG phase it engulfs the WD and the system experience a CEE that ends with a WD-core binary system at an orbital separation of a_f ~ 1-5Ro. Our simulations show that the core explodes as a CCSN at t_{CEE-CCSN} ~ 3000 - 10^5 yr after the CEE. We assume that if the WD accretes helium-rich gas from the core it might explode as a SN Ia in the frame of the double detonation scenario for SNe Ia and peculiar SNe Ia. We predict the very rare occurrence of a peculiar SN Ia followed within months to years by a CCSN.

arXiv commentAccepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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