Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2003-05-23
New Astron. 8 (2003) 817-836
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Accepted by New Astronomy, 36 pages
Scientific paper
10.1016/S1384-1076(03)00069-1
Supernova rates (hypernova, type II, type Ib/c and type Ia) in a particular galaxy depend on the metallicity (i.e. on the galaxy age), on the physics of star formation and on the binary population. In order to study the time evolution of the galactic supernova rates, we use our chemical evolutionary model that accounts in detail for the evolution of single stars and binaries. In particular, supernovae of type Ia are considered to arise from exploding white dwarfs in interacting binaries and we adopt the two most plausible physical models: the single degenerate model and the double degenerate model. Comparison between theoretical prediction and observations of supernova rates in different types of galaxies allows to put constraints on the population of intermediate mass and massive close binaries. The temporal evolution of the absolute galactic rates of different types of SNe (including the SN Ia rate) is presented in such a way that the results can be directly implemented into a galactic chemical evolutionary model. Particularly for SNIa the inclusion of binary evolution leads to results considerably different from those in earlier population synthesis approaches, in which binary evolution was not included in detail.
de Donder Erwin
Vanbeveren Dany
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