Carles Badenes

Twins: The Two Shortest Period Non-Interacting Double Degenerate White Dwarf Stars (2009)

Mullally, F., Badenes, Carles, Thompson, Susan E., Lupton, Robert

We report on the detection of the two shortest period non-interacting white dwarf binary systems. These systems, SDSS J143633.29+501026.8 and SDSS J105353.89+520031.0, were identified by searching...

Typing Supernova Remnants Using X-ray Line Emission Morphologies (2009)

Lopez, Laura A., Ramirez-Ruiz, Enrico, Badenes, Carles, Huppenkothen, Daniela, Jeltema, Tesla E., Pooley, David A.

We present a new observational method to type the explosions of young supernova remnants (SNRs). By measuring the morphology of the Chandra X-ray line emission in seventeen Galactic and Large...

First Results from the Swarms Survey. SDSS 1257+5428: A Nearby, Massive White Dwarf Binary with a Likely Neutron Star or Black Hole Companion (2009)

Badenes, Carles, Mullally, Fergal, Thompson, Susan E., Lupton, Robert H.

We present the first results from SWARMS (Sloan White dwArf Radial velocity data Mining Survey), an ongoing project to identify compact white dwarf (WD) binaries in the spectroscopic catalog of the...

The Stellar Ancestry of Supernova Progenitors in the Magellanic Clouds - I. the Most Recent Supernovae in the Large Magellanic Cloud (2009)

Badenes, Carles, Harris, Jason, Zaritsky, Dennis, Prieto, Jose Luis

We use the star formation history map of the Large Magellanic Cloud recently published by Harris & Zaritsky to study the sites of the eight smallest (and presumably youngest) supernova remnants in...

The End of Amnesia: Measuring the Metallicities of Type Ia SN Progenitors with Manganese Lines in Supernova Remnants (2009)

Badenes, Carles, Bravo, Eduardo, Hughes, John P.

The Mn to Cr mass ratio in supernova ejecta has recently been proposed as a tracer of Type Ia SN progenitor metallicity. We review the advantages and problems of this observable quantity, and discuss...

Star Formation Around the Youngest Supernova Remnants in the Large Magellanic Cloud: Implications for Type Ia Supernova Progenitors (2009)

Badenes, Carles, Harris, Jason, Zaritsky, Dennis, Prieto, Jose Luis

We use the star formation history map of the Large Magellanic Cloud recently published by Harris & Zaritsky to study the sites of the youngest Type Ia supernova remnants. We find that most Type Ia...

Secondary Fe-peak nuclei in the Tycho Supernova Remnant: A Promising Tracer of Type Ia Progenitor Metallicity (2008)

Badenes, Carles, Bravo, Eduardo, Hughes, John P.

The Mn to Cr mass ratio in supernova ejecta has recently been proposed as a tracer of Type Ia SN progenitor metallicity. We review the advantages and problems of this observable quantity, and discuss...

The End of Amnesia: A New Method for Measuring the Metallicity of Type Ia Supernova Progenitors Using Manganese Lines in Supernova Remnants (2008)

Badenes, Carles, Bravo, Eduardo, Hughes, John P.

We propose a new method to measure the metallicity of Type Ia supernova progenitors using Mn and Cr lines in the X-ray spectra of young supernova remnants. We show that the Mn to Cr mass ratio in...

Morphological evidence for azimuthal variations of the cosmic ray ion acceleration at the blast wave of SN 1006 (2008)

Cassam-Chenai, Gamil, Hughes, John P., Reynoso, Estela M., Badenes, Carles, Moffett, David

Using radio, X-ray and optical observations, we present evidence for morphological changes due to efficient cosmic ray ion acceleration in the structure of the southeastern region of the supernova...

The Persistence of Memory, or How the X-Ray Spectrum of SNR 0509-67.5 Reveals the Brightness of its Parent Type Ia Supernova (2008)

Badenes, Carles, Hughes, John P., Cassam-Chenai, Gamil, Bravo, Eduardo

We examine the dynamics and X-ray spectrum of the young Type Ia supernova remnant 0509-67.5 in the context of the recent results obtained from the optical spectroscopy of its light echo. Our goal is...

Are the Models for Type Ia Supernova Progenitors Consistent with the Properties of Supernova Remnants? (2007)

Badenes, Carles, Hughes, John P., Bravo, Eduardo, Langer, Norbert

We explore the relationship between the models for progenitor systems of Type Ia supernovae and the properties of the supernova remnants that evolve after the explosion. Most models for Type Ia...

Morphological evidence for azimuthal variations of the cosmic ray ion acceleration at the blast wave of SN 1006 (2007)

Cassam-Chenai, Gamil, Hughes, John P., Reynoso, Estela M., Badenes, Carles, Moffett, David

Using radio, X-ray and optical observations, we present evidence for morphological changes due to efficient cosmic ray ion acceleration in the structure of the southeastern region of the supernova...

Morphological evidence for azimuthal variations of the cosmic ray ion acceleration at the blast wave of SN 1006 (2007)

Cassam-Chenai, Gamil, Hughes, John P., Reynoso, Estela M., Badenes, Carles, Moffett, David

Using radio, X-ray and optical observations, we present evidence for morphological changes due to efficient cosmic ray ion acceleration in the structure of the southeastern region of the supernova...

Can Ejecta-Dominated Supernova Remnants be Typed from their X-ray Spectra? The Case of G337.2-0.7 (2006)

Rakowski, Cara E., Badenes, Carles, Gaensler, B. M., Gelfand, Joseph D., Hughes, John P., Slane, Patrick O.

In this paper we use recent X-ray and radio observations of the ejecta-rich Galactic supernova remnant (SNR) G337.2-0.7 to determine properties of the supernova (SN) explosion that formed this...

Constraints on the Physics of Type Ia Supernovae from the X-Ray Spectrum of the Tycho Supernova Remnant (2005)

Badenes, Carles, Borkowski, Kazimierz J., Hughes, John P., Hwang, Una, Bravo, Eduardo

In this paper we use high quality X-ray observations from XMM-Newton and Chandra to gain new insights into the explosion that originated Tycho's supernova 433 years ago. We perform a detailed...

Preprint typeset using L ATEX style emulateapj v. 6/22/04 A MILLION-SECOND CHANDRA VIEW OF CASSIOPEIA A (2005)

Una Hwang, J. Martin Laming, Carles Badenes, Fred Berendse, John Blondin, Denis Cioffi, ...

We introduce a million-second observation of the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A with the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The bipolar structure of the Si-rich ejecta (NE jet and SW counterpart) is clearly...

A Million-Second Chandra View of Cassiopeia A (2004)

Hwang, Una, Laming, J. Martin, Badenes, Carles, Berendse, Fred, Blondin, John, Cioffi, Denis, ...

We introduce a million-second observation of the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A with the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The bipolar structure of the Si-rich ejecta (NE jet and SW counterpart) is clearly...

Thermonuclear supernova explosions and their remnants: the case of Tycho (2003)

Badenes, Carles, Bravo, Eduardo, Borkowski, Kazimierz J.

We propose to use the thermal X-ray emission from young supernova remnants (SNRs) originated in Type Ia supernovae (SNe) to extract relevant information concerning the explosion mechanism. We focus...

Thermal X-ray emission from shocked ejecta in Type Ia Supernova Remnants. Prospects for explosion mechanism identification (2003)

Badenes, Carles, Bravo, Eduardo, Borkowski, Kazimierz J., Dominguez, Inmaculada

The explosion mechanism behind Type Ia supernovae is a matter of continuing debate. The diverse attempts to identify or at least constrain the physical processes involved in the explosion have been...

Prospects for SNIa Explosion Mechanism Identification Through Supernova Remnants (2002)

Badenes, Carles, Bravo, Eduardo

We present the first results from an ongoing work aimed to use supernovae remnants to discriminate among different type Ia supernovae explosion models. We have computed the hydrodynamic interaction...

The Imprint of Presupernova Evolution on Supernovae Remnants (2001)

Badenes, Carles, Bravo, Eduardo

The evolution of type Ia supernova binary system progenitors is highly uncertain. Several evolutionary models predict that the accretion of mass onto the white dwarf is accompanied by mass ejection...