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激变变星WZ Sge分量质量的动力学约束

Dynamical constraints on the component masses of the cataclysmic variable WZ Sge

D. Steeghs, S. Howell, C. Knigge, B. Gaensicke, E. Sion, W. Welsh

摘要:

本文介绍了用哈勃空间望远镜观测到的短周期激变变星WZ Sge的相位分辨光谱。我们能够分辨出一些吸收线的轨道运动,这些吸收线可能探测了吸积白矮星附近的环境。对13条吸收线同时拟合得到的径向速度表明轨道速度半振幅为KUV = 47 +/-3 km/s。然而,我们发现相位零点与白矮星星历表有+0.1的偏移。我们的偏移量和速度幅度是非常相似的约束来自静态的吸积盘的光发射线,尽管事实上,我们正在探测的材料更接近的主要。如果我们将UV振幅与K_1联系起来,我们的动力学约束与Steeghs等人(2001)的K_2估计以及已知的双星倾角i = 77 +/-2一起意味着0.88 <M_1 <1.53 M_sun,0.078 <M_2 <0.13 M_sun,0.075 <q = M_2/M_1 <0.101。如果我们把紫外线的平均速度(-16 +/-4 km/s)解释为由于白矮星附近高g环境中引起的引力红移,我们发现v_grav = 56 +/-5 km/s,当与质量-半径关系相结合时,它提供了M_1 = 0.85 +/-0.04 M_sun的质量的独立估计。我们的主要质量估计是非常一致的,也是自相一致的分光光度法拟合的紫外线通量,尽管观察到的相位偏移。目前还不清楚是什么原因导致了紫外光谱中观测到的相位偏移,以及它在多大程度上扭曲了底层白矮星的径向速度特征。

英文摘要:

We present phase-resolved spectroscopy of the short period cataclysmic variable WZ Sge obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope. We were able to resolve the orbital motion of a number of absorption lines that likely probe the environment near the accreting white dwarf. The radial velocities derived from simultaneous fits to 13 absorption lines indicate an orbital velocity semi-amplitude of K_UV = 47 +/- 3 km/s. However, we find that the phase zero is offset from the white dwarf ephemeris by +0.1. Our offset and velocity amplitude are very similar to constraints derived from optical emission lines from the quiescent accretion disk, despite the fact that we are probing material much closer to the primary. If we associate the UV amplitude with K_1, our dynamical constraints together with the K_2 estimates from Steeghs et al. (2001) and the known binary inclination of i=77+/-2 imply 0.88<M_1<1.53 M_sun, 0.078 < M_2 < 0.13 M_sun and 0.075<q=M_2/M_1<0.101. If we interpret the mean velocity of the UV lines (-16+/-4 km/s) as being due to the gravitational red-shift caused in the high-g environment near the white dwarf, we find v_grav=56+/-5 km/s which provides an independent estimate on the mass of the primary of M_1=0.85+/-0.04 M_sun when coupled with a mass-radius relation. Our primary mass estimates are in excellent agreement and are also self-consistent with spectrophotometric fits to the UV fluxes despite the observed phase offset. It is at this point unclear what causes the observed phase-offset in the UV spectra and by how much it distorts the radial velocity signature from the underlying white dwarf.

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