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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…
Single-Degenerate Type Ia Supernovae Are Preferentially Overluminous
Robert Fisher, Kevin Jumper
Recent observational and theoretical progress has favored merging and helium-accreting sub-Chandrasekhar mass white dwarfs in the double-degenerate and the double-detonation channe…
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…
Spiral Disk Instability Can Drive Thermonuclear Explosions in Binary White Dwarf Mergers
Rahul Kashyap, Robert Fisher, Enrique García-Berro +3
Thermonuclear, or Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), originate from the explosion of carbon--oxygen white dwarfs, and serve as standardizable cosmological candles. However, despite their…