The impact of chemical differentiation of white dwarfs on thermonuclear supernovae

Autores
Bravo, Eduardo; Althaus, Leandro Gabriel; García Berro, Enrique; Domínguez, Inmaculada
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2011
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Aims. Gravitational settling of 22Ne in cooling white dwarfs can affect the outcome of thermonuclear supernovae. We investigate how the supernova energetics and nucleosynthesis are in turn influenced by this process. We use realistic chemical profiles derived from state-of-the-art white dwarf cooling sequences. The cooling sequences provide a link between the white dwarf chemical structure and the age of the supernova progenitor system. Methods. The cooling sequence of a 1 M⊙ white dwarf was computed until freezing using an up-to-date stellar evolutionary code. We computed explosions of both Chandrasekhar mass and sub-Chandrasekhar mass white dwarfs, assuming spherical symmetry and neglecting convective mixing during the pre-supernova carbon simmering phase to maximize the effects of chemical separation. Results. Neither gravitational settling of 22Ne nor chemical differentiation of 12C and 16O have an appreciable impact on the properties of type Ia supernovae, unless there is a direct dependence of the flame properties (density of transition from deflagration to detonation) on the chemical composition. At a fixed transition density, the maximum variation in the supernova magnitude obtained from progenitors of different ages is ~0.06 mag, and even assuming an unrealistically large diffusion coefficient of 22Ne it would be less than ~0.09 mag. However, if the transition density depends on the chemical composition (all other things being equal) the oldest SNIa can be as much as 0.4 mag brighter than the youngest ones (in our models the age difference is 7.4 Gyr). In addition, our results show that 22Ne sedimentation cannot be invoked to account for the formation of a central core of stable neutron-rich Fe-group nuclei in the ejecta of sub-Chandrasekhar models, as required by observations of type Ia supernovae.
Fil: Bravo, Eduardo. Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya; España
Fil: Althaus, Leandro Gabriel. Universidad Nacional de la Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Astronómicas y Geofísicas; Argentina. Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya; España. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico La Plata. Instituto de Astrofísica de La Plata; Argentina
Fil: García Berro, Enrique. Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya; España. Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya; España
Fil: Domínguez, Inmaculada. Universidad de Granada; España
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Disfusion
Supernovae
Star evolution
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spelling The impact of chemical differentiation of white dwarfs on thermonuclear supernovaeBravo, EduardoAlthaus, Leandro GabrielGarcía Berro, EnriqueDomínguez, InmaculadaWhite dwarfsDisfusionSupernovaeStar evolutionhttps://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.3https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1Aims. Gravitational settling of 22Ne in cooling white dwarfs can affect the outcome of thermonuclear supernovae. We investigate how the supernova energetics and nucleosynthesis are in turn influenced by this process. We use realistic chemical profiles derived from state-of-the-art white dwarf cooling sequences. The cooling sequences provide a link between the white dwarf chemical structure and the age of the supernova progenitor system. Methods. The cooling sequence of a 1 M⊙ white dwarf was computed until freezing using an up-to-date stellar evolutionary code. We computed explosions of both Chandrasekhar mass and sub-Chandrasekhar mass white dwarfs, assuming spherical symmetry and neglecting convective mixing during the pre-supernova carbon simmering phase to maximize the effects of chemical separation. Results. Neither gravitational settling of 22Ne nor chemical differentiation of 12C and 16O have an appreciable impact on the properties of type Ia supernovae, unless there is a direct dependence of the flame properties (density of transition from deflagration to detonation) on the chemical composition. At a fixed transition density, the maximum variation in the supernova magnitude obtained from progenitors of different ages is ~0.06 mag, and even assuming an unrealistically large diffusion coefficient of 22Ne it would be less than ~0.09 mag. However, if the transition density depends on the chemical composition (all other things being equal) the oldest SNIa can be as much as 0.4 mag brighter than the youngest ones (in our models the age difference is 7.4 Gyr). In addition, our results show that 22Ne sedimentation cannot be invoked to account for the formation of a central core of stable neutron-rich Fe-group nuclei in the ejecta of sub-Chandrasekhar models, as required by observations of type Ia supernovae.Fil: Bravo, Eduardo. Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya; EspañaFil: Althaus, Leandro Gabriel. Universidad Nacional de la Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Astronómicas y Geofísicas; Argentina. Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya; España. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico La Plata. Instituto de Astrofísica de La Plata; ArgentinaFil: García Berro, Enrique. Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya; España. Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya; EspañaFil: Domínguez, Inmaculada. Universidad de Granada; EspañaEdp Sciences2011-02info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:ar-repo/semantics/articuloapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11336/10288Bravo, Eduardo; Althaus, Leandro Gabriel; García Berro, Enrique; Domínguez, Inmaculada; The impact of chemical differentiation of white dwarfs on thermonuclear supernovae; Edp Sciences; Astronomy And Astrophysics; 526; 2-2011; 26-340004-6361enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1051/0004-6361/201015506info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/http://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2011/02/aa15506-10/aa15506-10.htmlinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ar/reponame:CONICET Digital (CONICET)instname:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas2025-09-29T09:40:48Zoai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/10288instacron:CONICETInstitucionalhttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/Organismo científico-tecnológicoNo correspondehttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/oai/requestdasensio@conicet.gov.ar; lcarlino@conicet.gov.arArgentinaNo correspondeNo correspondeNo correspondeopendoar:34982025-09-29 09:40:48.311CONICET Digital (CONICET) - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicasfalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv The impact of chemical differentiation of white dwarfs on thermonuclear supernovae
title The impact of chemical differentiation of white dwarfs on thermonuclear supernovae
spellingShingle The impact of chemical differentiation of white dwarfs on thermonuclear supernovae
Bravo, Eduardo
White dwarfs
Disfusion
Supernovae
Star evolution
title_short The impact of chemical differentiation of white dwarfs on thermonuclear supernovae
title_full The impact of chemical differentiation of white dwarfs on thermonuclear supernovae
title_fullStr The impact of chemical differentiation of white dwarfs on thermonuclear supernovae
title_full_unstemmed The impact of chemical differentiation of white dwarfs on thermonuclear supernovae
title_sort The impact of chemical differentiation of white dwarfs on thermonuclear supernovae
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Bravo, Eduardo
Althaus, Leandro Gabriel
García Berro, Enrique
Domínguez, Inmaculada
author Bravo, Eduardo
author_facet Bravo, Eduardo
Althaus, Leandro Gabriel
García Berro, Enrique
Domínguez, Inmaculada
author_role author
author2 Althaus, Leandro Gabriel
García Berro, Enrique
Domínguez, Inmaculada
author2_role author
author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv White dwarfs
Disfusion
Supernovae
Star evolution
topic White dwarfs
Disfusion
Supernovae
Star evolution
purl_subject.fl_str_mv https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.3
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv Aims. Gravitational settling of 22Ne in cooling white dwarfs can affect the outcome of thermonuclear supernovae. We investigate how the supernova energetics and nucleosynthesis are in turn influenced by this process. We use realistic chemical profiles derived from state-of-the-art white dwarf cooling sequences. The cooling sequences provide a link between the white dwarf chemical structure and the age of the supernova progenitor system. Methods. The cooling sequence of a 1 M⊙ white dwarf was computed until freezing using an up-to-date stellar evolutionary code. We computed explosions of both Chandrasekhar mass and sub-Chandrasekhar mass white dwarfs, assuming spherical symmetry and neglecting convective mixing during the pre-supernova carbon simmering phase to maximize the effects of chemical separation. Results. Neither gravitational settling of 22Ne nor chemical differentiation of 12C and 16O have an appreciable impact on the properties of type Ia supernovae, unless there is a direct dependence of the flame properties (density of transition from deflagration to detonation) on the chemical composition. At a fixed transition density, the maximum variation in the supernova magnitude obtained from progenitors of different ages is ~0.06 mag, and even assuming an unrealistically large diffusion coefficient of 22Ne it would be less than ~0.09 mag. However, if the transition density depends on the chemical composition (all other things being equal) the oldest SNIa can be as much as 0.4 mag brighter than the youngest ones (in our models the age difference is 7.4 Gyr). In addition, our results show that 22Ne sedimentation cannot be invoked to account for the formation of a central core of stable neutron-rich Fe-group nuclei in the ejecta of sub-Chandrasekhar models, as required by observations of type Ia supernovae.
Fil: Bravo, Eduardo. Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya; España
Fil: Althaus, Leandro Gabriel. Universidad Nacional de la Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Astronómicas y Geofísicas; Argentina. Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya; España. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico La Plata. Instituto de Astrofísica de La Plata; Argentina
Fil: García Berro, Enrique. Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya; España. Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya; España
Fil: Domínguez, Inmaculada. Universidad de Granada; España
description Aims. Gravitational settling of 22Ne in cooling white dwarfs can affect the outcome of thermonuclear supernovae. We investigate how the supernova energetics and nucleosynthesis are in turn influenced by this process. We use realistic chemical profiles derived from state-of-the-art white dwarf cooling sequences. The cooling sequences provide a link between the white dwarf chemical structure and the age of the supernova progenitor system. Methods. The cooling sequence of a 1 M⊙ white dwarf was computed until freezing using an up-to-date stellar evolutionary code. We computed explosions of both Chandrasekhar mass and sub-Chandrasekhar mass white dwarfs, assuming spherical symmetry and neglecting convective mixing during the pre-supernova carbon simmering phase to maximize the effects of chemical separation. Results. Neither gravitational settling of 22Ne nor chemical differentiation of 12C and 16O have an appreciable impact on the properties of type Ia supernovae, unless there is a direct dependence of the flame properties (density of transition from deflagration to detonation) on the chemical composition. At a fixed transition density, the maximum variation in the supernova magnitude obtained from progenitors of different ages is ~0.06 mag, and even assuming an unrealistically large diffusion coefficient of 22Ne it would be less than ~0.09 mag. However, if the transition density depends on the chemical composition (all other things being equal) the oldest SNIa can be as much as 0.4 mag brighter than the youngest ones (in our models the age difference is 7.4 Gyr). In addition, our results show that 22Ne sedimentation cannot be invoked to account for the formation of a central core of stable neutron-rich Fe-group nuclei in the ejecta of sub-Chandrasekhar models, as required by observations of type Ia supernovae.
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