2 papers
astro-ph.SR2026
Slow White Dwarf Mergers as a New Galactic Source of Trans-Iron Elements
Umberto Battino, Claudia Lederer-Woods, Claudia Travaglio +2
The astrophysical origins of the heaviest stable elements that we observe today in the Solar System are still not fully understood. Recent studies have demonstrated that H-accretin…
astro-ph.SR2025
Trans-Fe elements from Type Ia Supernovae. I. Heavy element nucleosynthesis during the formation of near-Chandrasekhar white dwarfs
Umberto Battino, James Keegans, Megan Allen +9
Type Ia supernovae (SNIa) are thermonuclear explosions of white dwarfs in binary systems. They are central to galactic chemical evolution and serve as standardizable candles in cos…