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On the Progenitors of Type Ia Supernovae

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

X.-D. Li  and
E. P. J. van den Heuvel
X.-D. Li
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, Nanjing University Nanjing 210093, P. R. China
E. P. J. van den Heuvel
Affiliation:
Astronomical Institute, University of Amsterdam 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Supersoft X-ray sources (hereafter SSS) are a class of luminous (bolometric luminosity ~ 1037 − 1038 erg s−1) objects with a characteristic radiation temperature of 30 to 60 eV (Hasinger 1994; Kahabka & Trümper 1996). The most popular model for SSS is that they are massive white dwarfs steadily burning nuclear fuel accreted from a more massive binary companion at a rate near or above the Eddington limit (van den Heuvel et al. 1992).

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Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 187: Cosmic Chemical Evolution , 2002 , pp. 103 - 108
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