The type Ia supernova explosion of WDJ181058.67+311940.94 (VIDEO)

University of Warwick

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This is a movie of the explosion of a double white dwarf binary star system. The simulation was published in Nature Astronomy by James Munday and collaborations in LINK. Full credit goes to Dr. Ruediger Pakmor (Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik) for conducting this simulation and authorising it to be shared. The double white dwarf has the highest total mass known to date, coming in at (1.555+-0.044) times the mass of the Sun. The more massive star that is gaining material has a mass of (0.834+-0.039) solar masses, and the less massive one (0.721+-0.020) solar masses.

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Full credit goes to Dr. Ruediger Pakmor (Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik)

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Full credit goes to Dr. Ruediger Pakmor (Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik)

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