Search for surviving companions in type Ia supernova remnants
Kuo-Chuan Pan, Paul M. Ricker, Ronald E. Taam

TL;DR
This paper predicts the observable properties of surviving companions in type Ia supernova remnants to help distinguish progenitor scenarios, finding that nearby galaxies are promising targets for such searches.
Contribution
It combines hydrodynamics simulations with stellar evolution models to predict the brightness and color evolution of surviving companions, guiding observational searches.
Findings
Maximum detectable distance for main-sequence companions is 0.6-4 Mpc.
Maximum detectable distance for helium-rich companions is 0.4-16 Mpc.
Only five supernova remnants have been searched, providing limited evidence for the single-degenerate scenario.
Abstract
The nature of the progenitor systems of type~Ia supernovae is still unclear. One way to distinguish between the single-degenerate scenario and double-degenerate scenario for their progenitors is to search for the surviving companions. Using a technique that couples the results from multi-dimensional hydrodynamics simulations with calculations of the structure and evolution of main-sequence- and helium-rich surviving companions, the color and magnitude of main-sequence- and helium-rich surviving companions are predicted as functions of time. The surviving companion candidates in Galactic type~Ia supernova remnants and nearby extragalactic type~Ia supernova remnants are discussed. We find that the maximum detectable distance of main-sequence surviving companions (helium-rich surviving companions) is ~Mpc (~Mpc), if the apparent magnitude limit is 27 in the absence of…
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