White Dwarf—Red Giant Star Binaries as Type Ia Supernova Progenitors: With and without Magnetic Confinement
White Dwarf—Red Giant Star Binaries as Type Ia Supernova Progenitors: With and without Magnetic Confinement
Abstract Various white-dwarf (WD) binary scenarios have been proposed trying to understand the nature and the diversity of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). In this work, we study the evolution of carbon–oxygen WD—red giant (RG) binaries (including the role of magnetic confinement) as possible SN Ia progenitors (the so-called symbiotic …