出版社：SISSA, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati
摘要：Thermonuclear (type Ia) supernovae are explosions in accreting white dwarfs, but the exact scenario
leading to these explosions is still unclear. An important step to clarify this point is to
understand the behaviour of accreting white dwarfs in close binary systems. The characteristics
of the white dwarf (mass, chemical composition, luminosity), the accreted material (chemical
composition) and those related with the properties of the binary system (mass accretion rate), are
crucial for the further evolution towards the explosion. An analysis of the outcome of accretion
and the implications for the growth of the white dwarf towards the Chandrasekhar mass and its
thermonuclear explosion is presented.
