How the merger of two white dwarfs depends on their mass ratio: orbital stability and detonations at contact

REMNANTS OF BINARY WHITE DWARF MERGERS

(2012) Cody Raskin et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

EARLY RADIO AND X-RAY OBSERVATIONS OF THE YOUNGEST NEARBY TYPE Ia SUPERNOVA PTF 11kly (SN 2011fe)

(2012) Assaf Horesh et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

THE LONG-TERM EVOLUTION OF DOUBLE WHITE DWARF MERGERS

(2012) Ken J. Shen et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Violent mergers of nearly equal-mass white dwarf as progenitors of subluminous Type Ia supernovae

(2011) R. Pakmor et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

ON THE FORMATION OF DOUBLE WHITE DWARFS THROUGH STABLE MASS TRANSFER AND A COMMON ENVELOPE

(2011) T. E. Woods et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

PRELUDE TO A DOUBLE DEGENERATE MERGER: THE ONSET OF MASS TRANSFER AND ITS IMPACT ON GRAVITATIONAL WAVES AND SURFACE DETONATIONS

(2011) Marius Dan et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

SUB-CHANDRASEKHAR MASS MODELS FOR SUPERNOVAE

(2011) S. E. Woosley et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

TIDAL INTERACTIONS IN MERGING WHITE DWARF BINARIES

(2011) Anthony L. Piro   Astrophysical Journal Letters

NUCLEOSYNTHESIS DURING THE MERGER OF WHITE DWARFS AND THE ORIGIN OF R CORONAE BOREALIS STARS

(2011) R. Longland et al.   Astrophysical Journal Letters

A COMPACT DEGENERATE PRIMARY-STAR PROGENITOR OF SN 2011fe

(2011) Joshua S. Bloom et al.   Astrophysical Journal Letters

High luminosity, slow ejecta and persistent carbon lines: SN 2009dc challenges thermonuclear explosion scenarios★

(2011) S. Taubenberger et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Nearby supernova rates from the Lick Observatory Supernova Search - I. The methods and data base

(2011) Jesse Leaman et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Supernova SN 2011fe from an exploding carbon–oxygen white dwarf star

(2011) Peter E. Nugent et al.   NATURE

Exclusion of a luminous red giant as a companion star to the progenitor of supernova SN 2011fe

(2011) Weidong Li et al.   NATURE

Type Ia supernovae as stellar endpoints and cosmological tools

(2011) D. Andrew Howell   Nature Communications

A COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF CLOSE DOUBLE WHITE DWARFS AS GRAVITATIONAL WAVE SOURCES: EVOLUTIONARY CHANNELS, BIRTH RATES, AND PHYSICAL PROPERTIES

(2010) Jinzhong Liu et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

THELISAGRAVITATIONAL WAVE FOREGROUND: A STUDY OF DOUBLE WHITE DWARFS

(2010) Ashley J. Ruiter et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

THE SUPERNOVA DELAY TIME DISTRIBUTION IN GALAXY CLUSTERS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR TYPE-Ia PROGENITORS AND METAL ENRICHMENT

(2010) Dan Maoz et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

SPECTRA OF TYPE IA SUPERNOVAE FROM DOUBLE DEGENERATE MERGERS

(2010) Chris L. Fryer et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

NEARBY SUPERNOVA FACTORY OBSERVATIONS OF SN 2007if: FIRST TOTAL MASS MEASUREMENT OF A SUPER-CHANDRASEKHAR-MASS PROGENITOR

(2010) R. A. Scalzo et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

SHORT GAMMA-RAY BURSTS FROM DYNAMICALLY ASSEMBLED COMPACT BINARIES IN GLOBULAR CLUSTERS: PATHWAYS, RATES, HYDRODYNAMICS, AND COSMOLOGICAL SETTING

(2010) William H. Lee et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

THERMONUCLEAR .Ia SUPERNOVAE FROM HELIUM SHELL DETONATIONS: EXPLOSION MODELS AND OBSERVABLES

(2010) Ken J. Shen et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

SURFACE DETONATIONS IN DOUBLE DEGENERATE BINARY SYSTEMS TRIGGERED BY ACCRETION STREAM INSTABILITIES

(2010) James Guillochon et al.   Astrophysical Journal Letters

Sub-luminous type Ia supernovae from the mergers of equal-mass white dwarfs with mass ∼0.9M⊙

(2010) Rüdiger Pakmor et al.   NATURE

AM CVn Stars: Status and Challenges

(2010) J.-E. Solheim   PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC

High-resolution smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations of the merger of binary white dwarfs

(2009) P. Lorén-Aguilar et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

UNSTABLE HELIUM SHELL BURNING ON ACCRETING WHITE DWARFS

(2009) Ken J. Shen et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

SPONTANEOUS INITIATION OF DETONATIONS IN WHITE DWARF ENVIRONMENTS: DETERMINATION OF CRITICAL SIZES

(2009) Ivo R. Seitenzahl et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

THE PAST AND FUTURE HISTORY OF REGULUS

(2009) S. Rappaport et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

IMPROVED DARK ENERGY CONSTRAINTS FROM ∼100 NEW CfA SUPERNOVA TYPE Ia LIGHT CURVES

(2009) Malcolm Hicken et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

COLLISIONS OF WHITE DWARFS AS A NEW PROGENITOR CHANNEL FOR TYPE Ia SUPERNOVAE

(2009) Stephan Rosswog et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

CfA3: 185 TYPE Ia SUPERNOVA LIGHT CURVES FROM THE CfA

(2009) Malcolm Hicken et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Astrophysical smooth particle hydrodynamics

(2009) Stephan Rosswog   NEW ASTRONOMY REVIEWS

Exploring the Optical Transient Sky with the Palomar Transient Factory

(2009) Arne Rau et al.   PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC

Three‐Dimensional Simulations of the Deflagration Phase of the Gravitationally Confined Detonation Model of Type Ia Supernovae

(2008) G. C. Jordan IV et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Simulating black hole white dwarf encounters

(2008) Stephan Rosswog et al.   COMPUTER PHYSICS COMMUNICATIONS