Pub Date : 2019-02-07DOI: 10.1017/9781108181914.024
Observations of Type Ia supernovae (SN Ia) combined with modeling of dynamics, light curves and spectra continue to point to the difficult conclusion that SN Ia result from degenerate ignition in a carbon/oxygen white dwarf of the Chandrasekhar mass. Such a model accounts well for the “normal” SN Ia and for the observed dispersion exemplified by the light curve amplitude-shape relation. The criterion that the white dwarfs involved in this process grow to nearly 1.4 M ⊙ continues to provide a great challenge to understanding the binary stellar evolution involved. The so-called “supersoft X-ray sources” may provide an important new population of SN Ia progenitors. Other techniques are being developed that may constrain the binary evolution.
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Pub Date : 2019-02-07DOI: 10.1017/9781108181914.006
{"title":"Hydrostatic and Thermal Equilibrium","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/9781108181914.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108181914.006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":348488,"journal":{"name":"Stars and Stellar Processes","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115362943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-02-07DOI: 10.1017/9781108181914.033
{"title":"Using arXiv and ADS","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/9781108181914.033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108181914.033","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":348488,"journal":{"name":"Stars and Stellar Processes","volume":"518 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116389601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-02-07DOI: 10.1017/9781108181914.005
{"title":"Stellar Equations of State","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/9781108181914.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108181914.005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":348488,"journal":{"name":"Stars and Stellar Processes","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121983321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-02-07DOI: 10.1017/9781108181914.010
{"title":"Summary of Stellar Equations","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/9781108181914.010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108181914.010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":348488,"journal":{"name":"Stars and Stellar Processes","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116067300","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-02-07DOI: 10.1017/9781108181914.013
{"title":"Life and Times on the Main Sequence","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/9781108181914.013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108181914.013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":348488,"journal":{"name":"Stars and Stellar Processes","volume":"113 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125750565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}