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标题：Small steps in thermonuclear supernova research
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作者：E. Bravo
期刊名称：PoS - Proceedings of Science
印刷版ISSN：1824-8039
出版年度：2007
卷号：2007
出版社：SISSA, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati
摘要：Type Ia supernovae are the result of the thermonuclear disruption ofmassive white dwarfsmade of carbon and oxygen, but the details of the explosionmechanismare largely unknown. Most current explosionmodels invoke either a pure turbulent deflagration or a delayed transition to a supersonic detonation. Although both mechanisms can coexist, and account for part of the observational sample, only delayed detonations seem able to explain the bulk of the so-called normal Type Ia supernovae. Here we report on two numerical experiments aimed to explore the conditions under which a deflagration-to-detonation transition can be obtained, and their consequences