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most citedType Ia Supernova Explosion: Gravitationally Confined Detonation

268 citations · 694 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

astro-ph.SR2025

Mesoscale Turbulence in Type Ia Supernova Deflagrations: Buoyancy-Driven Fuel Heating and Prospects for Delayed-Detonations

Ezra Brooker, Andrey Zhiglo, Tomasz Plewa

The aim of this work is to characterize the thermodynamic state of fuel mixed into the turbulent flame brush in the context of the Zel'dovich deflagration-to-detonation transition…

astro-ph2006★ 71 cited

Detonating Failed Deflagration Model of Thermonuclear Supernovae I. Explosion Dynamics

Tomasz Plewa

We present a detonating failed deflagration model of Type Ia supernovae. In this model, the thermonuclear explosion of a massive white dwarf follows an off-center deflagration. We…

astro-ph2005★ 1 cited

Crushing of interstellar gas clouds in supernova remnants. I. The role of thermal conduction and radiative losses

S. Orlando, G. Peres, F. Reale +4

We model the hydrodynamic interaction of a shock wave of an evolved supernova remnant with a small interstellar gas cloud like the ones observed in the Cygnus loop and in the Vela…

astro-ph2005★ 20 cited

Type Ia Supernovae: Simulations and Nucleosynthesis

E. F. Brown, A. C. Calder, T. Plewa +3

We present our first nucleosynthesis results from a numerical simulation of the thermonuclear disruption of a static cold Chandrasekhar-mass C/O white dwarf. The two-dimensional si…

astro-ph2004★ 268 cited

Type Ia Supernova Explosion: Gravitationally Confined Detonation

Tomasz Plewa, Alan Calder, Don Lamb

We present a new mechanism for Type Ia supernova explosions in massive white dwarfs. The proposed scenario follows from relaxing the assumption of symmetry in the model and involve…

astro-ph2002★ 114 cited

Mapping Initial Hydrostatic Models in Godunov Codes

M. Zingale, L. J. Dursi, J. ZuHone +12

We look in detail at the process of mapping an astrophysical initial model from a stellar evolution code onto the computational grid of an explicit, Godunov type code while maintai…