Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-08-17
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
13 pages, v15 -- report late, now consistent with non-returned, resubmitted version. Feb. 3, 2007 version: Appendix: Anatomy o
Scientific paper
Type Ia Supernovae (SNe) have been used by many to argue for an accelerated expansion of the universe. However, high velocity and polarized features in many nearby SNe Ia, and their inverse relation to luminosity, particularly for polarization, are consistent with an extreme version of the axisymmetry seen in SN 1987A, which could be the result of double degenerate merger-induced core-collapse. This could be the correct paradigm for many SNe Ia and Ic, where Ia's are both thermonuclear and core-collapsed objects, which leave weakly-magnetized, rapidly spinning (~2 ms) pulsars. In this paradigm Ia/c is produced from the merger of two degenerate cores of common envelope WR stars, or of two CO white dwarfs. Its polar blowouts produce the observed high velocity and polarized spectral features in Ia's, and its equatorial bulge is much brighter in Ia's, due to the greater fraction of 56Ni contained within it. These become classified as Ia's when viewed from the merger equator, and Ic's when viewed from the poles, where a hypernova signature and a gamma-ray burst (GRB) will be observed for lines of sight close to the merger axis. Thus cosmology determined strictly from Ia's alone may be flawed because the local sample is selectively biased. Finally, all GRBs start as the short-duration, hard-spectrum variety (sGRBs), after which some are modified to the long-duration, soft-spectrum variety (lGRBs) by interaction with the merger common envelope and previous polar ejection. Thus the initial photon spectrum of all GRBs is known.
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