Below Chadrasekhar mass supernovae triggered by asteroid mass primordial dark matter black holes ?

[robin_astro]

While periodically searching my name in NASA ADS looking for any new references to observations I have made (The geek equivalent of Googling oneself!)  I came across this curious paper (which cites a paper I was made a co-author of having contributed a single spectrum) 

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022arXiv221100013S/abstract

It proposes that the production of a particular class of supernova (Calcium rich type 1a) which are otherwise difficult to explain as the white dwarf producing them appears to be well below the critical mass, might be explained by interaction with (theoretical and as yet unobserved) asteroid mass primordial dark matter black holes.

Cheers

Robin

[JeremyS]

It certainly helps to have a distinctive name when it comes to this kind of search!

[robin_astro]

1 hour ago, JeremyS said:

It certainly helps to have a distinctive name when it comes to this kind of search!

Definitely easier than Andrew's 🙂

[JeremyS]

47 minutes ago, robin_astro said:

Definitely easier than Andrew's 🙂

Yes he gets around 40,000 hits in Google Scholar!

[andrew s]

39 minutes ago, JeremyS said:

Yes he gets around 40,000 hits in Google Scholar!

Very productive, he is.