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Title: Sub-Chandrasekhar-mass White Dwarf Detonations Revisited

Abstract

The detonation of a sub-Chandrasekhar-mass white dwarf (WD) has emerged as one of the most promising Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) progenitor scenarios. Recent studies have suggested that the rapid transfer of a very small amount of helium from one WD to another is sufficient to ignite a helium shell detonation that subsequently triggers a carbon core detonation, yielding a "dynamically driven double-degenerate double-detonation" SN Ia. Because the helium shell that surrounds the core explosion is so minimal, this scenario approaches the limiting case of a bare C/O WD detonation. Motivated by discrepancies in previous literature and by a recent need for detailed nucleosynthetic data, we revisit simulations of naked C/O WD detonations in this paper. We disagree to some extent with the nucleosynthetic results of previous work on sub-Chandrasekhar-mass bare C/O WD detonations; for example, we find that a median-brightness SN Ia is produced by the detonation of a 1.0 $${M}_{\odot }$$ WD instead of a more massive and rarer 1.1 $${M}_{\odot }$$ WD. The neutron-rich nucleosynthesis in our simulations agrees broadly with some observational constraints, although tensions remain with others. There are also discrepancies related to the velocities of the outer ejecta and light curve shapes, but overall our synthetic light curves and spectra are roughly consistent with observations. We are hopeful that future multidimensional simulations will resolve these issues and further bolster the dynamically driven double-degenerate double-detonation scenario's potential to explain most SNe Ia.

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  1. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Astronomy and Theoretical Astrophysics Center; Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  2. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Astronomy and Theoretical Astrophysics Center; Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics
  3. Univ. of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
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Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)
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OSTI Identifier:
1524341
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AC02-05CH11231
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Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
The Astrophysical Journal (Online)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: The Astrophysical Journal (Online); Journal Volume: 854; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 1538-4357
Publisher:
Institute of Physics (IOP)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; binaries: close; nuclear reactions, nucleosynthesis, abundances; radiative transfer; supernovae: general; white dwarfs

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Shen, Ken J., Kasen, Daniel, Miles, Broxton J., and Townsley, Dean M. Sub-Chandrasekhar-mass White Dwarf Detonations Revisited. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aaa8de.
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Shen, Ken J., Kasen, Daniel, Miles, Broxton J., & Townsley, Dean M. Sub-Chandrasekhar-mass White Dwarf Detonations Revisited. United States. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aaa8de
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Shen, Ken J., Kasen, Daniel, Miles, Broxton J., and Townsley, Dean M. Mon . "Sub-Chandrasekhar-mass White Dwarf Detonations Revisited". United States. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aaa8de. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1524341.
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@article{osti_1524341,
title = {Sub-Chandrasekhar-mass White Dwarf Detonations Revisited},
author = {Shen, Ken J. and Kasen, Daniel and Miles, Broxton J. and Townsley, Dean M.},
abstractNote = {The detonation of a sub-Chandrasekhar-mass white dwarf (WD) has emerged as one of the most promising Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) progenitor scenarios. Recent studies have suggested that the rapid transfer of a very small amount of helium from one WD to another is sufficient to ignite a helium shell detonation that subsequently triggers a carbon core detonation, yielding a "dynamically driven double-degenerate double-detonation" SN Ia. Because the helium shell that surrounds the core explosion is so minimal, this scenario approaches the limiting case of a bare C/O WD detonation. Motivated by discrepancies in previous literature and by a recent need for detailed nucleosynthetic data, we revisit simulations of naked C/O WD detonations in this paper. We disagree to some extent with the nucleosynthetic results of previous work on sub-Chandrasekhar-mass bare C/O WD detonations; for example, we find that a median-brightness SN Ia is produced by the detonation of a 1.0 ${M}_{\odot }$ WD instead of a more massive and rarer 1.1 ${M}_{\odot }$ WD. The neutron-rich nucleosynthesis in our simulations agrees broadly with some observational constraints, although tensions remain with others. There are also discrepancies related to the velocities of the outer ejecta and light curve shapes, but overall our synthetic light curves and spectra are roughly consistent with observations. We are hopeful that future multidimensional simulations will resolve these issues and further bolster the dynamically driven double-degenerate double-detonation scenario's potential to explain most SNe Ia.},
doi = {10.3847/1538-4357/aaa8de},
journal = {The Astrophysical Journal (Online)},
number = 1,
volume = 854,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Feb 12 00:00:00 EST 2018},
month = {Mon Feb 12 00:00:00 EST 2018}
}
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Figure 1 Figure 1: Synthesized IME (top panel) and 56Ni (middle panel) masses and total nuclear energy release (bottom panel) vs. minimum cell size allowed in the simulation for detonations of 1.0 $M$☉ 50/50 C/O solar-metallicity WDs. Dashed lines represent the results from our hydrodynamic simulations, which use a 41-isotope network, formore » a maximum relative temperature change per time step of |$Δ$ 1n $T$|max = 0.02 (thin red dashed), 0.04 (medium blue dashed), and 0.08 (thick yellow dashed). Postprocessed results using a 205-isotope network are shown as solid lines for |$Δ$ 1n $T$|max = 0.02 (thin red solid), 0.04 (medium blue solid), and 0.08 (thick yellow solid). Circles in the top panel show the minimum cell sizes of the convergence study for reference.« less
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