Evolution of Contracting White Dwarfs as Presupernovae of Type I.
Abstract
The possibility is considered through a numerical investigation that the progenitors of Type I supernovae are certain white dwarfs which become dynamically unstable due to e(-) captures by certain stable nuclei in their interiors. Detailed evolutionary sequences of white dwarf models were calculated with the Henyey method including composition changes which correspond to various e(-) captures.
- Publication:
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Ph.D. Thesis
- Pub Date:
- December 1976
- Bibcode:
- 1976PhDT.........9K
- Keywords:
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- Physics: Astronomy and Astrophysics;
- Stellar Evolution;
- Supernovae;
- White Dwarf Stars;
- Electron Capture;
- Stellar Mass;
- Stellar Models;
- Astronomy