Dark matter admixed Type Ia supernovae
ORAL
Abstract
We perform two-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations for the thermonuclear explosion of Chandrasekhar-mass white dwarfs with dark matter (DM) cores in Newtonian gravity. We include a detailed nuclear reaction network and make use of the pure turbulent deflagration model as the explosion mechanism in our simulations. Our numerical results show that the general properties of the explosion depend quite sensitively on the mass of the DM core M$_{\mathrm{DM}}$. A larger M$_{\mathrm{DM}}$ generally leads to a weaker explosion and a lower mass of synthesized iron-peaked elements. In particular, the total mass of $^{56}$Ni produced can drop from about 0.3 to 0.03 M$_{\mathrm{sun}}$ as M$_{\mathrm{DM}}$ increases from 0.01 to 0.03 M$_{\mathrm{sun}}$. We have also constructed the bolometric light curves obtained from our simulations and found that our results match well with the observational data of sub-luminous type Ia supernovae.
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Authors
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Shing Chi Leung
Department of Physics and Institute of Theoretical Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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Ming Chung Chu
Department of Physics and Institute of Theoretical Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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Lap Ming Lin
Department of Physics and Institute of Theoretical Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China