Youthful supernovae explained?
Wednesday, April 8, 2009 - 11:14
in Astronomy & Space
A team of astronomers, led by Dr Bo Wang from the Yunnan Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, have developed a new model which explains the formation of the most youthful type Ia supernovae. In a paper published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Dr Bo Wang and his team show how the transfer of material from a 'helium star' to a compact white dwarf companion causes these cataclysmic events to take place early on in the life of the galaxy they formed in...