The cat is defined as being in estrus, in heat or in season (i.e. likely to become pregnant if mated) if it shows behavioral characteristics that are typical of a female cat in heat and if it stands for the male cat and allows mating to occur (i.e. is receptive to mating).he feline estrus cycle, otherwise known as the female reproductive cycle or heat cycle of the female cat, is a repetitive cycle of seasonally and hormonally driven fluctuations in a female cat's fertility and sexual receptivity.
Type Ib/c and II-L, and possibly most Type IIn, supernovae are only thought to be produced from stars having near-solar metallicity levels that result in high mass loss from massive stars, hence they are less common in older, more-distant galaxies.
One model for how a Type Ia supernova is produced involves the accretion of material to a white dwarf from an evolving star as a binary partner. If the accreted mass causes the white dwarf mass to exceed the Chandrasekhar limit of 1.44 solar masses, it will catastrophically collapse to produce the supernova. Another model envisions a binary system with a white dwarf and another white dwarf or a neutron star, a so-called doubly degenerate model.