A systematic survey for hypervelocity runaways from thermonuclear supernovae

Kareem El-Badry, Klaus Werner, Ken J. Shen +16

The explosion of a white dwarf (WD) in a close binary can launch a surviving runaway star at velocities of $\gtrsim 1000\mathrm{km}{\mathrm{s}}^{-1}$. Such runaways provide a direct probe of…