He-accreting oxygen-neon white dwarfs and accretion-induced collapse events

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Autori principali: Zhang, Zhengyang, Wu, Chengyuan, Aryan, Amar, Zha, Shuai, Liu, Dongdong, Wang, Bo
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author Zhang, Zhengyang
Wu, Chengyuan
Aryan, Amar
Zha, Shuai
Liu, Dongdong
Wang, Bo
author_facet Zhang, Zhengyang
Wu, Chengyuan
Aryan, Amar
Zha, Shuai
Liu, Dongdong
Wang, Bo
contents It has been widely accepted that mass-accreting white dwarfs (WDs) are the progenitors of Type Ia supernovae or electron-capture supernovae. Previous work has shown that the accretion rate could affect the elemental abundance on the outer layers of CO WDs, and therefore affect the observational characteristics after they exploded as SNe Ia. However, it has not been well studied how elemental abundance changes on the outer layers of He-accreting ONe WDs as they approach the Chandrasekhar mass limit. In this paper, we investigated the evolution of He-accreting ONe WDs with MESA. We found that a CO-rich mantle will accumulate beneath the He layers resulting from the He burning, after which the ignition of the CO-rich mantle could transform carbon into silicon (Si). The amount of Si produced by carbon burning is strongly anti-correlated with the accretion rate. As the ONe WD nearly approaches the Chandrasekhar mass limit (Mch) through accretion, it is likely to undergo accretion-induced collapse (AIC), resulting in the formation of the neutron star (NS).
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spellingShingle He-accreting oxygen-neon white dwarfs and accretion-induced collapse events
Zhang, Zhengyang
Wu, Chengyuan
Aryan, Amar
Zha, Shuai
Liu, Dongdong
Wang, Bo
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
It has been widely accepted that mass-accreting white dwarfs (WDs) are the progenitors of Type Ia supernovae or electron-capture supernovae. Previous work has shown that the accretion rate could affect the elemental abundance on the outer layers of CO WDs, and therefore affect the observational characteristics after they exploded as SNe Ia. However, it has not been well studied how elemental abundance changes on the outer layers of He-accreting ONe WDs as they approach the Chandrasekhar mass limit. In this paper, we investigated the evolution of He-accreting ONe WDs with MESA. We found that a CO-rich mantle will accumulate beneath the He layers resulting from the He burning, after which the ignition of the CO-rich mantle could transform carbon into silicon (Si). The amount of Si produced by carbon burning is strongly anti-correlated with the accretion rate. As the ONe WD nearly approaches the Chandrasekhar mass limit (Mch) through accretion, it is likely to undergo accretion-induced collapse (AIC), resulting in the formation of the neutron star (NS).
title He-accreting oxygen-neon white dwarfs and accretion-induced collapse events
topic Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.16588