Hydrodynamic Evolution of Supernovae Impacting White Dwarf Donors
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Coleman, Matthew; Bauer, Evan
- Source
- Subject
- Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
- Language
- English
The D6 scenario suggests that the white dwarf donor interacts significantly with the supernova ejecta, as a way to explain the luminosity and size of candidate remnant objects. As this is clearly a dynamical interaction, we use the self-gravity and newly developed EOS capabilities of Athena++ to explicitly evolve the hydrodynamical phase of the ejecta-donor interaction, with particular attention dedicated to the shock that travels through the donor and the entropy deposited in its interior.