BN3 - NS-NS and NS-WD mergers |
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Loren-Aguilar, Pablo |
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Binary Mergers of White Dwarfs |
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White dwarf binary mergers are an unavoidable consequence of the process of stellar evolution. They have been exhaustively investigated in the last few decades, given their suspected role as one of the main progenitors of Type Ia supernovae. In the present talk, our current understanding of the dynamical evolution of a white dwarf binary merger will be reviewed. The lessons learnt by means of decades of numerical simulations will be discussed, putting special emphasis in all the possible outcomes of the merging process. For obvious reasons, much has been said in recent years about the explosive fate of binary mergers of white dwarfs, but Type Ia supernovae are by no means the only fascinating outcome of this type of stellar mergers. Non-explosive white dwarf mergers are also essential in order to correctly understand galactic evolution, since they are thought to be the likely progenitors of many interesting objects, like R Coronae Borealis stars or high magnetic field white dwarfs. |
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