Collisions of white dwarfs as a new progenitor channel for type IA supernovae

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 705, Issue 2 PART 2, 2009, Pages

  Rosswog, Stephan ^a   Kasen, Daniel ^b   Guillochon, James ^b   Ramirez Ruiz, Enrico ^b  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Globular clusters: general; Hydrodynamics; Nuclear reactions, nucleosynthesis, abundances; Radiative transfer; Supernovae: general; White dwarfs

Indexed keywords

EID: 77749284158     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/705/2/L128     Document Type: Article

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