Deflagrations and Detonations in Thermonuclear Supernovae

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2004-06-03

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0406101v1

Phys.Rev.Lett.92:211102,2004

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 2 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.211102

We study a type Ia supernova explosion using three-dimensional numerical simulations based on reactive fluid dynamics. We consider a delayed-detonation model that assumes a deflagration-to-detonation transition. In contrast to the pure deflagration model, the delayed-detonation model releases enough energy to account for a healthy explosion, and does not leave carbon, oxygen, and intermediate-mass elements in central parts of a white dwarf. This removes the key disagreement between simulations and observations, and makes a delayed detonation the mostly likely mechanism for type Ia supernovae.

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