Thermonuclear
Supernova
Research

Digital Media

Thermonuclear Supernovae: stellar explosions in three dimensions, NERSC INCITE presentation, SC04, November 2004, Pittsburgh, PA
Asymmetric Type Ia supernovae from detonating failed deflagrations, AAS 205th meeting, May 2005, Minneapolis, MN
Thermonuclear Supernova: a successful failure, presentation at the GSI workshop, January 2006, Hirschegg, Austria
Thermonuclear Supernova: a successful failure, presentation at the KITP conference Paths to Exploding Stars: Accretion and Eruption, March 2007, Santa Barbara, CA

Raw Data

Central deflagrations benchmarks database

Resources

Supernova
White dwarf
White dwarfs and electron degeneracy
Winds from hot stars
Supernova spectra tutorial
SUSPECT: The Online Supernova Spectrum Archive
Supernova links

Publications

Detonability of white dwarf plasma: turbulence models at low densities, Fenn, D. & Plewa, T. 2017, MNRAS, in press
MNRAS (TBD), ADS, astro-ph

Imprints of the ejecta-companion interaction in Type Ia supernovae: main-sequence, subgiant, and red giant companions, Boehner, P., Plewa, T., & Langer, N. 2017, MNRAS, 465, 2060
MNRAS, ADS, astro-ph

No double detonations but core carbon ignitions in high-resolution, grid-based simulations of binary white dwarf mergers, Fenn, D., Plewa, T., & Gawryszcak, A. 2016, MNRAS, 462, 2486
MNRAS, ADS, astro-ph

Detonating Failed Deflagration model of thermonuclear supernovae. II. Comparison to observations, Kasen, D., & Plewa, T. 2007, ApJ, 662, 459
ApJ, ADS, astro-ph

Detonating Failed Deflagration model of thermonuclear supernovae. I. Explosion dynamics, Plewa, T. 2007, ApJ, 657, 942
ApJ, ADS, astro-ph, hi-res pdf version

On the evolution of thermonuclear flames on large scales, Zhang, J., Messer, O. E., Khokhlov, A. M., & Plewa, T. 2007, ApJ, 656, 347
ApJ, ADS, astro-ph

Spectral signatures of gravitationally confined thermonuclear supernova explosions, Kasen, D., & Plewa, T. 2005, ApJ, 622, L41
ApJL, ADS, astro-ph

Type Ia supernova explosion: Gravitationally Confined Detonation, Plewa, T., Calder, A.C., & Lamb, D.Q. 2004, ApJ, 612, L37
ApJL, ADS, astro-ph

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