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Binary paths to Type Ia supernovae explosions : proceedings of the 281st Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, held in Padova, Italy, July 4-8, 2011 / Proceedings of the 281st Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, held in Padova, Italy, July 4-8, 2011 edited by Rosanne Di Stefano, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, USA, Marina Orio, INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Padua, Italy, Dept. of Astronomy, University of Winsconsin, Madison, WI, USA and Maxwell Moe, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, USA. - xxvii, 353 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. - IAU symposium proceedings series, 1743-9213 . - IAU symposium and colloquium proceedings series. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reviews recent progress in theory and observations which lead to a wider range of possible progenitor models than ever before. Presents all sides of the ongoing debates, while retaining a diversity of opinions on a wide range of topics reflecting physical uncertainties relating to the Type Ia progenitor puzzle. The 2011 Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to three astrophysicists who inferred the existence of dark energy from Type Ia supernova data.--

ISBN: 9781107019812 1107019818

LCCN: 2012554597

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Supernovae--Congresses.
White dwarf stars--Congresses.
Cataclysmic variable stars--Congresses.

LC Class. No.: QB843.S95 / I58 2011

Dewey Class. No.: 524.352/ STE