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Abstract Many of the short-lived radioactive nuclei that were present in the early solar system can be produced in massive stars. In the first paper in this series, we focused on the production of26Al in massive binaries. In our second paper, we considered rotating single stars; two more short-lived radioactive nuclei,36Cl and41Ca; and the comparison to the early solar system data. In this work, we update our previous conclusions by further considering the impact of binary interactions. We used the MESA stellar evolution code with an extended nuclear network to compute massive (10–80M⊙), binary stars at various initial periods and solar metallicity (Z= 0.014), up to the onset of core collapse. The early solar system abundances of26Al and41Ca can be matched self-consistently by models with initial masses ≥25M⊙, while models with initial primary masses ≥35M⊙can also match36Cl. Almost none of the models provide positive net yields for19F, while for22Ne the net yields are positive from 30M⊙and higher. This leads to an increase by a factor of approximately 4 in the amount of22Ne produced by a stellar population of binary stars, relative to single stars. In addition, besides the impact on the stellar yields, our 10M⊙primary star undergoing Case A mass transfer ends its life as a white dwarf instead of as a core-collapse supernova. This demonstrates that binary interactions can also strongly impact the evolution of stars close to the supernova boundary.
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Fate of supernova progenitors in massive binary systems
ABSTRACT How massive stars end their lives depends on the core mass, core angular momentum, and hydrogen envelopes at death. However, these key physical facets of stellar evolution can be severely affected by binary interactions. In turn, the effectiveness of binary interactions itself varies greatly depending on the initial conditions of the binaries, making the situation much more complex. We investigate systematically how binary interactions influence core–collapse progenitors and their fates. Binary evolution simulations are performed to survey the parameter space of supernova progenitors in solar metallicity binary systems and to delineate major evolutionary paths. We first study fixed binary mass ratios ($$q=M_2/M_1$$ = 0.5, 0.7, and 0.9) to elucidate the impacts of initial mass and initial separation on the outcomes, treating separately Type Ibc supernova, Type II supernova, accretion-induced collapse (AIC), rapidly rotating supernova (Ibc-R), black hole formation, and long gamma ray burst (long GRB). We then conduct 12 binary population synthesis model calculations, varying the initial condition distributions and binary evolution parameters, to estimate various supernova fractions. We obtain a Milky Way supernova rate $$R_{\rm SN} = (1.78$$–$$2.47) \times 10^{-2} \, {\rm yr}^{-1}$$ which is consistent with observations. We find the rates of AIC, Ibc-R, and long GRB to be $$\sim 1/100$$ the rate of regular supernovae. Our estimated long GRB rates are higher than the observed long GRB rate and close to the low luminosity GRB rate, although care must be taken considering our models are computed with solar metallicity. Furthering binary modelling and improving the inputs one by one will enable more detailed studies of these and other transients associated with massive stars.
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- PAR ID:
- 10528959
- Publisher / Repository:
- Oxford University Press
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Volume:
- 532
- Issue:
- 4
- ISSN:
- 0035-8711
- Format(s):
- Medium: X Size: p. 3926-3946
- Size(s):
- p. 3926-3946
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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