ERC Consolidator Grant · 2023
Unveiling the origins of white-dwarf explosions
The explosive deaths of white dwarfs are essential in heavy element nucleosynthesis, galaxy feedback, and for understanding the evolution of binary systems. Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are famous for their key role as cosmological-distance indicators and in the discovery of the accelerating Universe. Recent high-cadence surveys, and theoretical advances, have hinted that SNe Ia may not be the dominant way in which white dwarfs explode, with the potential existence of large populations of faint and rapidly evolving white-dwarf explosions. These unexplored classes of exotic transients may come from white dwarfs being torn apart by intermediate-mass black holes, mergers with neutron stars, or…
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