The Progenitors of Type Ia Supernovae

Details The Progenitors of Type Ia Supernovae The Progenitors of Type Ia Supernovae

2008-06-23

arxiv.org/abs/0806.3729v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

13 pages, 3 figures, accepted in ApJL

Scientific paper

10.1086/591314

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) occur in both old, passive galaxies and active, star-forming galaxies. This fact, coupled with the strong dependence of SN Ia rate on star formation rate, suggests that SNe Ia form from stars with a wide range of ages. Here we show that the rate of SN Ia explosions is about 1% of the stellar death rate, independent of star formation history. The dependence of SN Ia rate on star formation rate implies a delay time distribution proportional to t^{-0.5+-0.2}. The single degenerate channel for SNe Ia can be made to match the observed SN Ia rate -- SFR relation, but only if white dwarfs are converted to SNe Ia with uniform efficiency of ~1%, independent of mass. Since low-mass progenitors are expected to have lower conversion efficiencies than high mass progenitors, we conclude that some other progenitor scenario must be invoked to explain some, or perhaps all, SNe Ia.

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