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The progenitors of Type Ia supernovae with long delay times
The nature of the progenitors of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) is still
unclear. In this paper, by considering the effect of the instability of
accretion disk on the evolution of white dwarf (WD) binaries, we performed
binary evolution calculations for about 2400 close WD binaries, in which a
carbon--oxygen WD accretes material from a main-sequence star or a slightly
evolved subgiant star (WD + MS channel), or a red-giant star (WD + RG channel)
to increase its mass to the Chandrasekhar (Ch) mass limit. According to these
calculations, we mapped out the initial parameters for SNe Ia in the orbital
period--secondary mass () plane for various WD
masses for these two channels, respectively. We confirm that WDs in the WD + MS
channel with a mass as low as can accrete efficiently and reach
the Ch limit, while the lowest WD mass for the WD + RG channel is . We have implemented these results in a binary population synthesis
study to obtain the SN Ia birthrates and the evolution of SN Ia birthrates with
time for both a constant star formation rate and a single starburst. We find
that the Galactic SN Ia birthrate from the WD + MS channel is according to our standard model, which is higher than
previous results. However, similar to previous studies, the birthrate from the
WD + RG channel is still low (). We also
find that about one third of SNe Ia from the WD + MS channel and all SNe Ia
from the WD + RG channel can contribute to the old populations (\ga1 Gyr) of
SN Ia progenitors.Comment: 11 pages, 9 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication in MNRA
Unified parametrization of quark and lepton mixing matrices in tri-bimaximal pattern
Parametrization of the quark and lepton mixing matrices is the first attempt
to understand the mixing of fermions. In this work, we parameterize the quark
and lepton matrices with the help of quark-lepton complementarity (QLC) in a
tri-bimaximal pattern of lepton mixing matrix. In this way, we combine the
parametrization of the two matrices with each other. We apply this new
parametrization to several physical quantities, and show its simplicity in the
expression of, e.g., the Jarlskog parameter of CP violation.Comment: 12 latex page
The Lax pair for C_2-type Ruijsenaars-Schneider model
We study the C_2 Ruijsenaars-Schneider(RS) model with interaction potential
of trigonometric type. The Lax pairs for the model with and without spectral
parameter are constructed. Also given are the involutive Hamiltonians for the
system. Taking nonrelativistic limit, we obtain the Lax pair of C_2
Calogero-Moser model.Comment: LaTeX2e, 10 pages, some misprints corrected and sections rearrange
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