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Supernovae of Type Ia
Supernovae of Type Ia
Ronald F. Webbink
Department of Astronomy
University of Illinois
SN 1994D in NGC 4526 (HST)
LSU - 25 Oct 07 2Hachinger et al. 2006
Supernova taxonomy
www.astronomy.com
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Cosmological significance
• SNe Ia as standard candles
• Magnitude => Expansion of light sphere with respect to comoving coordinates
• Redshift => Expansion of comoving coordinates
Wood-Vasey, et al. 2007
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All SNe Ia are
not the same
www.nd.edu/~kkrisciu
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• What is the physical cause of this dispersion?
• Is it truly independent of redshift?
• What secondary factors should affect SN Ia properties?
=> Physics of supernova explosions
• What are their progenitors?
www.nd.edu/~kkrisciu
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What do we know?
• Occur in both spiral and elliptical galaxies
Li 2007
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What do we know?
• Occur in both spiral and elliptical galaxies
• Rate in spirals correlates with star formation rate (prompt component)
McMillan & Ciardullo 1996
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What do we know?
• Occur in both spiral and elliptical galaxies
• Rate in spirals correlates with star formation rate (prompt component)
• Persistent rate among passive (elliptical) galaxies (delayed component)
Sullivan et al. 2006
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What do we know?
• Speed correlates with galaxy type
Gallagher et al. 2005
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What do we know?
• Speed correlates with galaxy type
• No H, He => MCSM < ~0.03 Msun
Lundqvist 2007
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What do we know?
• Speed correlates with galaxy type
• No H, He => MCSM < ~0.03 Msun
• Radio- and X-ray non-detections => dM/dt < ~10-7 Msun yr-1
Panagia, et al. 2006
Hughes et al. 2007
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What do we know about the progenitors?• White dwarf progenitors
No H, He
Some SNe Ia from old stellar populations
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What do we know about the progenitors?• White dwarf progenitors
No H, He
Some SNe Ia from old stellar
populations
• Thermonuclear runawaySpectra
No compact remnants found
Stehle, et al. 2005
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What do we know about the progenitors?• White dwarf progenitors
No H, He
Some SNe Ia from old stellar
populations
• Thermonuclear runawaySpectra
No compact remnants found
• Powered by 56Ni to 56Co
to 56Fe decaySpectra
Light curves Röpke et al. 2007
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What do we know about the progenitors?• White dwarf progenitors
No H, He
Some SNe Ia from old stellar populations
• Thermonuclear runawaySpectra
No compact remnants found
• Powered by 56Ni to 56Co to 56Fe decaySpectra
Light curves
• Binary systemsNo other plausible way to trigger instability
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Common envelope evolution
Yungelson 2007
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Stable mass transfer
Yungelson 2007
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SN Ia Progenitors
Yungelson 2007
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Candidate Progenitors• Single Degenerates
Cataclysmic VariablesRecurrent NovaeSymbiotic StarsSupersoft X-ray Sources
• Edge-Lit DetonationssdHe/HeWD + CO WD
• Double DegeneratesCO + CO White Dwarfs
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Cataclysmic Variables
• Outbursting binaries: Classical Novae (CN)
Dwarf novae (DN)
Novalike variables (NL)
Magnetic CVs (MCV)
• Mwd ~ 0.6-1.0 Msun
• Mdonor < ~2/3 – 1 Msun
• Accretion events (DN,
NL, MCV)
• dM/dt ~ 10-11 – 10-8 Msun yr-1
• Pcrit ~ 1019 dyne cm-2
=> Thermonuclear runaway
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Nova ignition masses
Townsley & Bildsten 2005
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Gehrz et al. 1998
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Classical nova outbursts
• Runaways erode Mwd!
• Many classical novae contain ONeMg white dwarfs
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Recurrent Novae
• Mwd close to MCh
• Ejecta lack the heavy-element enhancements characteristic of classical novae => dMwd/dt > 0 ?
• Core composition unknown, but likely to be ONeMg white dwarfs (cf. CN)
• Rare: Death rate ~ 10-2 SN Ia rate
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Symbiotic Stars
• Heterogenous class of objects, mostly wind-accreting WD companions to luminous M giants or AGB stars
• Hot components mostly powered by H burning on white dwarf
• Mwd mostly unknown, but those in T CrB, RS Oph (erstwhile RNe) must be near MCh
• Extremely H-rich environment
LSU - 25 Oct 07 26Munari & Zwitter 2002
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Supersoft X-ray Sources
• Heterogeneous class of objects (incl. PNNe, SNR, Symbiotic Stars), but many are stable H-burning white dwarfs
Nomoto et al. 2007
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Supersoft X-ray Sources
• Heterogeneous class of objects (incl. PNNe, SNR, Symbiotic Stars), but many are stable H-burning white dwarfs
• Population synthesis predicts ~103 SSS in M31 if SN Ia progenitors
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SSS in M31
center disk
Di Stefano 2007
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Supersoft X-ray Sources
• Heterogeneous class of objects (incl. PNNe, SNR, Symbiotic Stars), but many are stable H-burning white dwarfs
• Population synthesis predicts ~103 SSS in M31 if SN Ia progenitors => 102 times number seen in X-rays
• Can they be hidden?
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Evolution of SSS
Di Stefano & Nelson 1996
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Supersoft X-ray Sources• Can they be hidden?
• Perhaps super-Eddington luminosity (accretion + burning) drives a massive stellar wind
Hachisu & Kato 2003
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Supersoft X-ray Sources• Can they be hidden?
• Perhaps super-Eddington luminosity (accretion + burning) drives a massive stellar wind
• BUT such a model predicts– H, He-rich ejecta
– Relatively dense stellar wind
both in violation of observational limits
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Supersoft X-ray Sources• Can they be hidden?
• Perhaps super-Eddington luminosity (accretion + burning) drives a massive stellar wind
• BUT such a model predicts– H, He-rich ejecta
– Relatively dense stellar wind
both in violation of observational limits
• Alternative: Super-Eddington accretion regenerates AGB giant
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Supersoft X-ray Sources• Can they be hidden?
• Perhaps super-Eddington luminosity (accretion + burning) drives a massive stellar wind
• BUT such a model predicts– H, He-rich ejecta
– Relatively dense stellar wind
both in violation of observational limits
• Alternative: Super-Eddington accretion regenerates AGB giant
• Maximum lifetime to carbon ignition (delay to SN Ia) ~ 1.6 X 109 yr
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Problems withSingle-Degenerate Progenitors
• Instability of He-burning shell
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Thermal pulses in AGB stars
Iben & Renzini 1983
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Thermal pulses in accreting white dwarfs
Cassisi, Iben & Tornambè 1998
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Problems withSingle-Degenerate Progenitors
• Instability of He-burning shell– What of Surface Hydrogen Burning?
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Surface Hydrogen Burning
Starrfield 2007
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Surface Hydrogen Burning
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Problems withSingle-Degenerate Progenitors
• Instability of He-burning shell• Ablation of H-rich donor in supernova event
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Marietta, Burrows & Fryxell 2000
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Problems withSingle-Degenerate Progenitors
• Instability of He-burning shell• Ablation of H-rich donor in supernova event• Surviving companion?
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Companion peculiar velocities
Canal, Méndez & Ruiz-Lapuente 2001
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Tycho (SN1572) Companion?
Ruiz-Lapuente, et al. 2004
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Companion Rotation Velocities
Schmidt 2007
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Tycho G revisited
Schmidt 2007
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Edge-Lit Detonations• Degenerate ignition of ~0.1 Msun of He on ~1 Msun
CO white dwarf can trigger double detonation• Mass transfer too rapid from non-degenerate He
star donor to permit accreted envelope to cool to degeneracy and develop strong flashes
• Degenerate donors have even higher mass transfer rates until Mdonor < ~0.05 Msun
• Degenerate He ignition produces outward-propagating detonation, but fails to detonate CO core, or to produce intermediate-mass elements (e.g., Si) seen at maximum light
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Failed Double Detonation
Bildsten 2007
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CO +CO White Dwarf Mergers
• Wide range of delay times from GR inspiral
Yungelson 2007
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CO +CO White Dwarf Mergers
• Wide range of delay times from GR inspiral
• Eddington-limited accretion ignites carbon at the base of the accreted envelope (1D)
Nomoto & Iben 1985
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CO +CO White Dwarf Mergers
• Wide range of delay times from GR inspiral
• Eddington-limited accretion ignites carbon at the base of the accreted envelope (1D)
• But mass transfer occurs on a dynamical time scale
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White dwarf coalescence
Yoon, Podsiadlowski & Rosswog 2007
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Merged Double White Dwarf
Yoon, Podsiadlowski & Rosswog 2007
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CO +CO White Dwarf Mergers
• Wide range of delay times from GR inspiral
• Eddington-limited accretion ignites carbon at the base of the accreted envelope (1D)
• But mass transfer occurs on a dynamical time scale
• Carbon ignition quenched in 2D or 3D by meridional expansion
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Problems withDouble-Degenerate Progenitors
• Tidal synchronization and preheating during approach to merger
Iben, Tutukov & Fedorova 1998
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Problems withDouble-Degenerate Progenitors
• Tidal synchronization and preheating during approach to merger
• Angular momentum transport
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Synchronization at low accretion rates
• KH – Kelvin-Helmholtz instability
• BC – Baroclinic instability
• TS – Tayler-Spruit dynamo
Piro 2007
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Problems withDouble-Degenerate Progenitors
• Tidal synchronization and preheating during approach to merger
• Angular momentum transport
• Shock heating of accreted matter and the site of carbon ignition
=> Neutrino cooling of accreted envelope?
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Are there enough double-degenerates?
Napiwotzki 2007
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Theoretical DD Search Yields
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SN Ia ProgenitorComparative Yields
Yungelson 2007
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The Parting Shot:We’re looking for haystacks, not needles!
Maoz 2007
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