Brendan BOYD
(Stony Brook University)
19/09/2023, 17:00
Stellar modelling
Poster
Type Ia supernovae are extremely bright thermonuclear events and have been very well studied by numerous observations. However, there remain many open questions about the progenitor system for these explosive events. In the single-degenerate progenitor model, in which a white dwarf accretes mass from a stellar companion, a phase of simmering occurs where carbon burning drives core convection...
