3 papers
astro-ph2004
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-ph2003
Morphology of Rising Hydrodynamic and Magneto-hydrodynamic Bubbles from Numerical Simulations
K. Robinson, L. J. Dursi, P. M. Ricker +11
Recent Chandra and XMM-Newton observations of galaxy cluster cooling flows have revealed X-ray emission voids of up to 30 kpc in size that have been identified with buoyant, magnet…
astro-ph2003
On Heavy Element Enrichment in Classical Novae
A. Alexakis, A. C. Calder, A. Heger +10
Many classical nova ejecta are enriched in CNO and Ne. Rosner et al. recently suggested that the enrichment might originate in the resonant interaction between large-scale shear fl…