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Searching for Type Ia Supernovae in Globular Clusters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 January 2013

Rasmus Voss
Rasmus Voss*
Affiliation:
Department of Astrophysics/IMAPP, Radboud University Nijmegen, PO Box 9010, NL-6500 GL Nijmegen, the Netherlands email: rvoss@science.ru.nl
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Abstract

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Globular clusters are known to have enhanced populations of binaries with compact objects, owing to the dynamical interactions taking place in their dense stellar environments. Both the single degenerate and double degenerate Type Ia supernova progenitors are expected to be similarly enhanced with respect to the field, but the theoretical predictions are highly uncertain. Here we discuss an archival survey aimed at constraining the fraction of Type Ia supernovae that explode inside globular clusters.

Keywords

supernovae: general — white dwarfs — galaxies: star clusters

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