The progenitors of type Ia supernovae
Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are being used as standard candles to measure the distant reaches of the Universe. Although accretion on to a white dwarf, that explodes in a thermonuclear runaway, is almost certainly the direct precursor of the supernova itself, there remains considerable doubt as to th...
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Institute of Physics Publishing
2001
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