Issue |
A&A
Volume 523, November-December 2010
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Article Number | A3 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Stellar structure and evolution | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201014180 | |
Published online | 10 November 2010 |
Helium-star evolutionary channel to super-Chandrasekhar mass type Ia supernovae
1
Department of PhysicsShangqiu Normal University,
Shangqiu
476000,
PR China
e-mail: chenwc@nju.edu.cn
2
School of Physics and State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and
Technology, Peking University, Beijing
100871, PR
China
3
Key Laboratory of Modern Astronomy and Astrophysics (Nanjing
University), Ministry of
Education, Nanjing
210093, PR
China
4
National Astronomical Observatories/Yunnan Observatory, the
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming
650011, PR
China
5
Key Laboratory for the Structure and Evolution of Celestial
Objects, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming
650011, PR
China
Received: 2 February 2010
Accepted: 27 July 2010
The recent discovery of several overluminous type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) indicates that the explosive masses of white dwarfs may significantly exceed the canonical Chandrasekhar-mass limit. Rapid differential rotation may support these massive white dwarfs (WDs). Based on the single-degenerate scenario and assuming that the WDs would differentially rotate when the accretion rate Ṁ > 3 × 10-7 M⊙ yr-1, we performed the numerical calculations for ~ 1000 binary systems consisting of a He star and a CO WD with Eggleton’s stellar evolution code. We present the initial parameters in the orbital period − helium star-mass plane (for WD masses of 1.0 M⊙ and 1.2 M⊙, respectively), which lead to super-Chandrasekhar mass SNe Ia. Our results indicate that for an initially massive WD of 1.2 M⊙, a large number of SNe Ia may result from super-Chandrasekhar mass WDs. The highest mass of the WD at the moment of the SNe Ia explosion is 1.81 M⊙, but very massive ( > 1.85 M⊙) WDs cannot be formed. However, when the initial mass of WDs is 1.0 M⊙, the explosive masses of SNe Ia are nearly uniform, which is consistent with the rareness of super-Chandrasekhar mass SNe Ia in observations.
Key words: binaries: general / stars: rotation / stars: evolution / supernovae: general / white dwarfs
© ESO, 2010
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