Hunting for the progenitor of SN 1006: High resolution spectroscopic search with the FLAMES instrument
Type Ia supernovae play a significant role in the evolution of the Universe and have a wide range of applications. It is widely believed that these events are the thermonuclear explosions of carbon-oxygen white dwarfs close to the Chandrasekhar mass (1.38 M\odot). However, CO white dwarfs are born w...
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2012
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