Evolution of Rotating Accreting White Dwarfs and the Diversity of Type Ia Supernovae

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2003-09-16

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0309433v1

Astrophys.J.595:1094-1100,2003

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

7 pages, 6 figures

Scientific paper

10.1086/377248

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) have relatively uniform light curves and spectral evolution, which make SNe Ia useful standard candles to determine cosmological parameters. However, the peak brightness is not completely uniform, and the origin of the diversity has not been clear. We examine whether the rotation of progenitor white dwarfs (WDs) can be the important source of the diversity of the brightness of SNe Ia. We calculate the structure of rotating WDs with an axisymmetric hydrostatic code. The diversity of the mass induced by the rotation is ~0.08 Msun and is not enough to explain the diversity of luminosity. However, we found the following relation between the initial mass of the WDs and their final state; i.e., a WD of smaller initial mass will rotate more rapidly before the supernova explosion than that of larger initial mass. This result might explain the dependence of SNe Ia on their host galaxies.

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