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Old 06-November-2009, 07:23 PM
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Smile subluminous type1a supernovae from WD mergers

The authors manage to get a heavy pair of white dwarfs to coalesce into a common envelope type 1a "supe". It has a rapid rise to maximum, and then, also an atypical decline. It does require pretty heavy white dwarfs, but it works, Kudos, pete SEE:http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0911/0911.0926.pdf
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