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Modeling subgrid combustion processes in simulations of thermonuclear supernovae
Dean M. Townsley, Alan C. Calder, Broxton J. Miles
Supernovae of type Ia are thought to arise from the thermonuclear incineration of a carbon-oxygen white dwarf stellar remnant. However, the detailed explosion scenario and stellar…
Double Detonations with Thin, Modestly Enriched Helium Layers Can Make Normal Type Ia Supernovae
Dean M. Townsley, Broxton J. Miles, Ken J. Shen +1
It has been proposed that Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) that are normal in their spectra and brightness can be explained by a double detonation that ignites first in a helium shell o…
Three Hypervelocity White Dwarfs in Gaia DR2: Evidence for Dynamically Driven Double-Degenerate Double-Detonation Type Ia Supernovae
Ken J. Shen, Douglas Boubert, Boris T. Gänsicke +23
Double detonations in double white dwarf (WD) binaries undergoing unstable mass transfer have emerged in recent years as one of the most promising Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) progeni…
Cosmic Chandlery with Thermonuclear Supernovae
Alan C. Calder, Brendan K. Krueger, Aaron P. Jackson +3
Thermonuclear (Type Ia) supernovae are bright stellar explosions, the light curves of which can be calibrated to allow for use as "standard candles" for measuring cosmological dist…
A Tracer Method for Computing Type Ia Supernova Yields: Burning Model Calibration, Reconstruction of Thickened Flames, and Verification for Planar Detonations
Dean M. Townsley, Broxton J. Miles, F. X. Timmes +2
We refine our previously introduced parameterized model for explosive carbon-oxygen fusion during thermonuclear supernovae (SN Ia) by adding corrections to post-processing of recor…