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Quantifying How Density Gradients and Front Curvature Affect Carbon Detonation Strength During Type Ia Supernovae
Broxton J. Miles, Dean M. Townsley, Ken J. Shen +2
Accurately reproducing the physics behind the detonations of Type Ia supernovae and the resultant nucleosynthetic yields is important for interpreting observations of spectra and r…
Main Sequence Evolution with Layered Semiconvection
Kevin Moore, Pascale Garaud
Semiconvection - mixing that occurs in regions that are stable when considering compositional gradients, but unstable when ignoring them - is shown to have the greatest potential i…
Excitation of gravity waves by fingering convection, and the formation of compositional staircases in stellar interiors
P. Garaud, M. Medrano, J. Brown +2
Fingering convection (or thermohaline convection) is a weak yet important kind of mixing that occurs in stably-stratified stellar radiation zones in the presence of an inverse mean…
An Exploration of Double Diffusive Convection in Jupiter as a Result of Hydrogen-Helium Phase Separation
N. Nettelmann, J. J. Fortney, K. Moore +1
Jupiter's atmosphere has been observed to be depleted in helium (Yatm~0.24), suggesting active helium sedimentation in the interior. This is accounted for in standard Jupiter struc…
The Initiation and Propagation of Helium Detonations in White Dwarf Envelopes
Ken J. Shen, Kevin Moore
Detonations in helium-rich envelopes surrounding white dwarfs have garnered attention as triggers of faint thermonuclear ".Ia" supernovae and double detonation Type Ia supernovae.…
The Effects of Curvature and Expansion on Helium Detonations on White Dwarf Surfaces
Kevin Moore, Dean Townsley, Lars Bildsten
Accreted helium layers on white dwarfs have been highlighted for many decades as a possible site for a detonation triggered by a thermonuclear runaway. In this paper, we find the m…
PESSTO monitoring of SN 2012hn: further heterogeneity among faint type I supernovae
S. Valenti, F. Yuan, S. Taubenberger +24
We present optical and infrared monitoring data of SN 2012hn collected by the Public ESO Spectroscopic Survey for Transient Objects (PESSTO). We show that SN 2012hn has a faint pea…
Circumstellar Shell Formation in Symbiotic Recurrent Novae
Kevin Moore, Lars Bildsten
We present models of spherically symmetric recurrent nova shells interacting with circumstellar material in a symbiotic system composed of a red giant expelling a wind, and a white…
PTF11kx: A Type-Ia Supernova with a Symbiotic Nova Progenitor
B. Dilday, D. A. Howell, S. B. Cenko +32
There is a consensus that Type-Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) arise from the thermonuclear explosion of white dwarf stars that accrete matter from a binary companion. However, direct obser…
Laterally Propagating Detonations in Thin Helium Layers on Accreting White Dwarfs
Dean M. Townsley, Kevin Moore, Lars Bildsten
Theoretical work has shown that intermediate mass (0.01Msun<M_He<0.1Msun) Helium shells will unstably ignite on the accreting white dwarf (WD) in an AM CVn binary. For more massive…
Acoustic Signatures of the Helium Core Flash
Lars Bildsten, Bill Paxton, Kevin Moore +1
All evolved stars with masses M <2 solar masses undergo an initiating off-center helium core flash in their 0.48 solar mass He core as they ascend the red giant branch (RGB). This…
Clearing the Gas from Globular Clusters & Dwarf Spheroidals with Classical Novae
Kevin Moore, Lars Bildsten
Observations of the intra-cluster medium (ICM) in galactic globular clusters (GCs) show a systematic deficiency in ICM mass as compared to that expected from accumulation of stella…