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Type Ia supernovae from chemically segregated white dwarfs
E. Bravo, J. Isern, L. Piersanti
Type Ia supernovae are the outcome of the explosion of a carbon-oxygen white dwarf in a close binary system. They are thought to be the main contributors to the galactic nucleosynt…
Supernovae 2016bdu and 2005gl, and their link with SN 2009ip-like transients: another piece of the puzzle
A. Pastorello, C. S. Kochanek, M. Fraser +52
Supernova (SN) 2016bdu is an unusual transient resembling SN 2009ip. SN 2009ip-like events are characterized by a long-lasting phase of erratic variability which ends with two lumi…
White paper: Gaia and the end states of stellar evolution
M. A Barstow, S. L. Casewell, S. Catalan +18
This is the product of a Gaia GREAT workshop on "Gaia and the end states of stellar evolution" held at the University of Leicester in April 2011.
White dwarfs as physics laboratories: the case of axions
J. Isern, L. Althaus, S. Catalan +4
White dwarfs are almost completely degenerate objects that cannot obtain energy from thermonuclear sources, so their evolution is just a gravothermal cooling process. Recent improv…
Type Ia supernovae and the ^{12}C+^{12}C reaction rate
E. Bravo, L. Piersanti, I. Domínguez +3
The experimental determination of the cross-section of the ^{12}C+^{12}C reaction has never been made at astrophysically relevant energies (E<2 MeV). The profusion of resonances th…
Constraining the axion mass through the asteroseismology of the ZZ Ceti star G117-B15A
A. H. Córsico, L. G. Althaus, A. D. Romero +3
We perform an asteroseismological study on the DAV star G117-B15A on the basis of a modern set of fully evolutionary DA white dwarf models that have consistent chemical profiles at…