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Magnetized Moving Mesh Merger of a Carbon-Oxygen White Dwarf Binary
Chenchong Zhu, Rudiger Pakmor, Marten H. van Kerkwijk +1
White dwarf (WD) binary mergers are possible progenitors to a number of unusual stars and transient phenomena, including type Ia supernovae. To date, simulations of mergers have no…
The Physics and End-Products of Merging CO WD Binaries
Chenchong Zhu
The merger of two carbon-oxygen white dwarfs has long been theorized to lead to a massive carbon-oxygen or oxygen-neon white dwarf, accretion-induced collapse to a neutron star, or…
A Parameter-Space Study of Carbon-Oxygen White Dwarf Mergers
Chenchong Zhu, Philip Chang, Marten van Kerkwijk +1
The merger of two carbon-oxygen white dwarfs can lead either to a spectacular transient, stable nuclear burning or a massive, rapidly rotating white dwarf. Simulations of mergers h…
Properties of Carbon-Oxygen White Dwarf Merger Remnants
Chenchong Zhu, Philip Chang, Marten van Kerkwijk +1
Recent studies have shown that for suitable initial conditions both super- and sub-Chandrasekhar mass carbon-oxygen white dwarf mergers produce explosions similar to observed SNe I…