Carbon Deflagration in Type Ia Supernova. I. Centrally Ignited Models

Ma, H.; Woosley, S. E.; Malone, C. M.; Almgren, A.; Bell, J.

doi:10.1088/0004-637x/771/1/58

Title: Carbon Deflagration in Type Ia Supernova. I. Centrally Ignited Models

Journal Article · Mon Jun 17 00:00:00 EDT 2013 · The Astrophysical Journal

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/771/1/58· OSTI ID:1565018

Ma, H. ^[1]; Woosley, S. E. ^[1]; Malone, C. M. ^[1]; Almgren, A. ^[2]; Bell, J. ^[2]

Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, CA (United States). Dept. of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Center for Computational Sciences and Engineering

A leading model for Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) begins with a white dwarf near the Chandrasekhar mass that ignites a degenerate thermonuclear runaway close to its center and explodes. In a series of papers, we shall explore the consequences of ignition at several locations within such dwarfs. In this paper, we assume central ignition, which has been explored before, but is worth revisiting, if only to validate those previous studies and to further elucidate the relevant physics for future work. A perturbed sphere of hot iron ash with a radius of ~100 km is initialized at the middle of the star. The subsequent explosion is followed in several simulations using a thickened flame model in which the flame speed is either fixed—within the range expected from turbulent combustion—or based on the local turbulent intensity. Global results, including the explosion energy and bulk nucleosynthesis (e.g., ⁵⁶Ni of 0.48-0.56 M_⊙) turn out to be insensitive to this speed. In all completed runs, the energy released by the nuclear burning is adequate to unbind the star, but not enough to give the energy and brightness of typical SNe Ia. As found previously, the chemical stratification observed in typical events is not reproduced. These models produce a large amount of unburned carbon and oxygen in central low velocity regions, which is inconsistent with spectroscopic observations, and the intermediate mass elements and iron group elements are strongly mixed during the explosion.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231; AC05-00OR22725; FC02-06ER41438

OSTI ID:: 1565018

Journal Information:: The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 771, Issue 1; ISSN 0004-637X

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