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Light Curves and Spectra from a Thermonuclear Explosion of a White Dwarf Merger
Daniel R. van Rossum, Rahul Kashyap, Robert Fisher +5
Double-degenerate (DD) mergers of carbon-oxygen white dwarfs have recently emerged as a leading candidate for normal Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). However, many outstanding question…
astro-ph.HE2015★ 3 cited
Death by Dynamics: Planetoid-Induced Explosions on White Dwarfs
Rosanne Di Stefano, Robert Fisher, James Guillochon +1
At intervals as short as ten thousand years, each white dwarf (WD) passes within a solar radius of a planetoid, i.e., a comet, asteroid, or planet. Gravitational tidal forces tear…