Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Nov 1995
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995ap%26ss.233..287b&link_type=abstract
Astrophysics and Space Science, Volume 233, Issue 1-2, pp. 287-292
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Supernovae: General, Hydrodynamics, Instabilities
Scientific paper
A self-consistent model of white dwarf burning in the Supernovae Ia events is proposed which includes the consequent stages of the flame, the spontaneous explosion and the detonation. The flame is ignited locally at several points near the center of the star, but soon it is pushed out of the center due to the Rayleigh-Taylor instability. Most of the hot fuel of the central part of the star remains unburnt by the flame. The unburnt fuel explodes spontaneously after the time delay determined by the average temperature near the star center. Until the time of the explosion the flame consumes more than 0.1 of the white dwarf mass out of the star center, which causes pre-expansion of the unburnt fuel in the outer layers of the star. The spontaneous explosion triggers the detonation which incinerates the rest of the star and produces the intermediate mass elements in the pre-expanded layers. The detonation overcomes gravitational binding and causes mass ejection. The proposed theory provides the physical basis for the explanation of the observed spectrum of Supernovae Ia.
Bychkov Vitaliy V.
Liberman Michael A.
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