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Explosion of White Dwarfs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

R. Lopez
Affiliation:
Departamento de Fisica de la Tierra y del Cosmos, Universidad de Barcelona, and Grup d’Astrofisica de la Societat Catalana de Fisica, Barcelona, Spain
J. Isern
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucia, and Grup d’Astrofísica de la Societat Catalana de Física, Granada, Spain
J. Labay
Affiliation:
Departamento de Fisica de la Tierra y del Cosmos, Universidad de Barcelona, and Grup d’Astrofisica de la Societat Catalana de Fisica, Barcelona, Spain
R. Canal
Affiliation:
Departamento de Física de la Tierra y del Cosmos, Universidad de Granada, and Grup d’Astrofísica de la Societat Catalana de Física, Granada, Spain

Abstract

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We present models for Type I supernova light curves based on the explosion of partially solid white dwarfs in close binary systems. Studies of such explosions show that they leave bound remnants of different size. Our results reproduce quite well the maximun luminosities, the expansion velocities and the shape of the light curve. As the two basic papameters that govern the light curve, the ejected mass and the mass of 56Ni produced, are variable our models reproduce the slow and fast subclasses of “classical” Type I supernovae.

Type
V. Nova and Dwarf Nova Outbursts
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1987

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