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

Nature

Volumn 463, Issue 7277, 2010, Pages 61-64

  Pakmor, Rüdiger ^a   Kromer, Markus ^a   Röpke, Friedrich K ^a   Sim, Stuart A ^a   Ruiter, Ashley J ^a   Hillebrandt, Wolfgang ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTROPHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; LUMINESCENCE; NUCLEAR EXPLOSION; SIMULATION;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPLOSION; LIGHT; MASS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SPECTRUM; VELOCITY;

EID: 73849090209     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08642     Document Type: Article

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