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Robin Leadbeater
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“T CrB can never become a SNIa”

Never is a very long time. Even if the net accretion rate remains negative, the companion star will also eventually evolve into a white dwarf producing a double degenerate system. The eventual merger of such systems could produce a supernova explosion and is increasingly considered to be the cause of the majority of type Ia supernova explosions.

Robin