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最小质量白矮星的伴星发现

The Discovery of a Companion to the Lowest Mass White Dwarf

Mukremin Kilic, Warren R. Brown, Carlos Allende Prieto, M. H. Pinsonneault, S. J. Kenyon

摘要:

我们发现了SDSS J091709.55+463821.8的一颗视向速度伴星,它是目前已知的质量最小的白矮星,M~ 0.17 Msun。白矮星的视向速度变化的半振幅为148.8 km/s,周期为7.5936小时,表明其伴星质量大于0.28 Msun。光学测光中缺乏伴星的证据,迫使任何主序星伴星都小于0.1Msun,因此排除了该系统有低质量主序星伴星的可能性。这颗伴星很可能是另一颗白矮星,我们提出了可能产生它的进化情景的初步证据。然而,不能排除中子星伴星的可能性,需要进行后续的射电观测来寻找脉冲星伴星。

英文摘要:

We report the detection of a radial velocity companion to SDSS J091709.55+463821.8, the lowest mass white dwarf currently known with M~0.17Msun. The radial velocity of the white dwarf shows variations with a semi-amplitude of 148.8 km/s and a period of 7.5936 hours, which implies a companion mass of M > 0.28Msun. The lack of evidence of a companion in the optical photometry forces any main-sequence companion to be smaller than 0.1Msun, hence a low mass main sequence star companion is ruled out for this system. The companion is most likely another white dwarf, and we present tentative evidence for an evolutionary scenario which could have produced it. However, a neutron star companion cannot be ruled out and follow-up radio observations are required to search for a pulsar companion.

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