• DOI:10.1051/0004-6361:20040135
Corpus ID: 2849060

The Case against the progenitor's carbon - to - oxygen ratio as a source of peak luminosity variations in Type Ia supernovae

@article{Rpke2004TheCA,
  title={The Case against the progenitor's carbon - to - oxygen ratio as a source of peak luminosity variations in Type Ia supernovae},
  author={F. R{\"o}pke and W. Hillebrandt},
  journal={Astronomy and Astrophysics},
  year={2004},
  volume={420}
}

F. Röpke, W. Hillebrandt

Published 2004

Physics

Astronomy and Astrophysics

One of the major challenges for theoretical modeling of type Ia supernova explosions is to explain the diversity of these events and the empirically established correlation between their peak luminosity and light curve shape. In the framework of the so-called Chandrasekhar mass models, the progenitor's carbon-to-oxygen ratio has been suggested as a principal source of peak luminosity variations due to a variation in the production of radioactive 56 Ni during the explosion. We describe a mech… CONTINUE READING

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