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### Constraining the spin-down timescale of the white-dwarf progenitors of Type Ia supernovae

Abstract:

Justham (2011) and DiStefano et al.\ (2011) proposed that the white-dwarf progenitor of a Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) may have to spin down before it can explode. As the white dwarf spin-down timescale is not well known theoretically, we here try to constrain it empirically (within the framework of this spin-down model) for progenitor systems that contain a giant donor and for which circumbinary material has been detected after the explosion: we obtain an upper limit of a few \$10^{\rm 7} {\rm y...

Publication status:
Published

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Publisher copy:
10.1088/2041-8205/778/2/L35

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Department:
Oxford, MPLS, Physics, Astrophysics
Role:
Author
Journal:
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS
Volume:
778
Issue:
2
Pages:
L35-L35
Publication date:
2013-11-01
DOI:
EISSN:
2041-8213
ISSN:
2041-8205
URN:
uuid:759dae90-1bac-4c8e-b954-57d0205e4c26
Source identifiers:
438672
Local pid:
pubs:438672
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