{
  "id": "1410.4580",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2014-10-16T20:21:29.000Z",
  "updated": "2014-10-16T20:21:29.000Z",
  "title": "The Physics and End-Products of Merging CO WD Binaries",
  "authors": [
    "Chenchong Zhu"
  ],
  "comment": "5 pages, 1 figure, to appear in ASP Conference Series \"19th European White Dwarf Workshop (EUROWD14)\"",
  "categories": [
    "astro-ph.SR"
  ],
  "abstract": "The merger of two carbon-oxygen white dwarfs has long been theorized to lead to a massive carbon-oxygen or oxygen-neon white dwarf, accretion-induced collapse to a neutron star, or a type Ia supernova. Determining which mergers lead to a particular outcome requires hydrodynamic simulations of the merging process. I give a brief overview of the current understanding of mergers and their end-products derived from simulations, and show how temperature, rather than density or mass, most strongly determines a merging binary's subsequent evolution. I then describe recent simulations that show mergers generate strong magnetic fields that could help drive a merger remnant to ignition.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2014-10-16T20:21:29.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "wd binaries",
      "end-products",
      "mergers generate strong magnetic fields",
      "merging binarys subsequent evolution",
      "simulations"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "conference paper"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 5,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2015ASPC..493..563Z"
    }
  }
}