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模拟热星风的聚集引起的极化变化

Modelling the clumping-induced polarimetric variability of hot star winds

Ben Davies, Jorick S. Vink, René D. Oudmaijer

摘要:

在大质量恒星的风中聚集可能会显着降低经验的质量损失率,这反过来可能会对我们对大质量恒星演化的理解产生重大影响。在这里,我们研究风聚集通过光散射引起的线偏振的团块。通过使用一个分析风聚束模型,我们预测的线性偏振在一个大的参数空间的时间演变。我们专注于蓝色发光变星,它显示了最大的偏振变化量,我们最近进行了分光偏振调查。我们的模型结果表明,所观察到的偏振变化水平可以复制两个政权的参数空间:一个少数的大规模,光学厚的团块;和一个非常大量的低质量团块。虽然需要一个系统的时间分辨的监测活动,以区分这两种情况下,我们目前倾向于后者,鉴于观察到的偏振变化的时间尺度短。由于偏振的预测与质量损失率的线性比例,我们预计,所有的热恒星具有非常大的质量损失率应显示偏振的变化。这与最近的研究结果一致,即内在极化在具有强H $α$发射的恒星中更常见。

英文摘要:

Clumping in the winds of massive stars may significantly reduce empirical mass-loss rates, and which in turn may have a large impact on our understanding of massive star evolution. Here, we investigate wind-clumping through the linear polarization induced by light scattering off the clumps. Through the use of an analytic wind clumping model, we predict the time evolution of the linear polarimetry over a large parameter space. We concentrate on the Luminous Blue Variables, which display the greatest amount of polarimetric variability and for which we recently conducted a spectropolarimetric survey. Our model results indicate that the observed level of polarimetric variability can be reproduced for two regimes of parameter space: one of a small number of massive, optically-thick clumps; and one of a very large number of low-mass clumps. Although a systematic time-resolved monitoring campaign is required to distinguish between the two scenarios, we currently favour the latter, given the short timescale of the observed polarization variability. As the polarization is predicted to scale linearly with mass-loss rate, we anticipate that all hot stars with very large mass-loss rates should display polarimetric variability. This is consistent with recent findings that intrinsic polarization is more common in stars with strong H$α$ emission.

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