White dwarf collisions, a promising scenario to account for meteoritic anomalies

It is commonly accepted that collisions between white dwarfs (WD) are rare events that only occur in the dense interior of globular clusters or in the dense outskirts around the central galactic black holes, and are therefore disregarded as an important source of Type Ia supernovae (SNIa). Although...

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Autores: Isern Vilaboy, Jordi, Bravo Guil, Eduardo|||0000-0003-0894-6450
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/130996
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/130996
https://dx.doi.org/10.3847/2515-5172/aadd50
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Supernovae
Meteorites
Meteors
Meteoroids
Nuclear reactions
Nucleosynthesis
Abundances
White dwarfs
Supernoves
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Física::Astronomia i astrofísica
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Sumario:It is commonly accepted that collisions between white dwarfs (WD) are rare events that only occur in the dense interior of globular clusters or in the dense outskirts around the central galactic black holes, and are therefore disregarded as an important source of Type Ia supernovae (SNIa). Although the majority of these encounters will not result in a SNIa event, many of them will produce mass ejections. Under the appropriate circumstances, this material can become part of a protostar nebula, including the pre-solar one, in the form of stardust leading to the existence of chemical anomalies in meteorites. We describe a WD-WD collision scenario that potentially might explain the so called Ne-E anomaly found in some primitive meteorites like Orgueil and Murchison.