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氧氖白矮星对星系晕中MACHO含量的贡献

The contribution of Oxygen-Neon white dwarfs to the MACHO content of the Galactic Halo

J. Camacho, S. Torres, J. Isern, L. G. Althaus, E. Garcia-Berro

摘要:

对大麦云云(LMC)微透镜效应的解释仍然存在争议。人们提出白矮星来解释这些结果,因此对我们银河系的质量预算做出了重大贡献。然而,常规碳氧白矮星所扮演的角色存在一些限制。大质量白矮星被认为是由氧和氖的混合物组成的。相应地,它们的冷却速度比典型的碳氧白矮星要快,并且在短时间内就消失不见。因此,他们构成了一个很好的候选人解释微透镜的结果。在这里,我们详细研究这一假设,使用最新的和最新的冷却轨道的大规模白矮星和蒙特卡洛模拟器,考虑到最相关的银河输入。我们发现,氧-氖白矮星不能占大麦哲伦星云微透镜深度的很大一部分,独立于所采用的初始质量函数,虽然一些微透镜事件可能是由于氧-氖白矮星。白矮星的数量对星系晕质量的贡献最多为5%。

英文摘要:

The interpretation of microlensing results towards the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) still remains controversial. White dwarfs have been proposed to explain these results and, hence, to contribute significantly to the mass budget of our Galaxy. However, several constraints on the role played by regular carbon-oxygen white dwarfs exist. Massivewhite dwarfs are thought to be made of a mixture of oxygen and neon. Correspondingly, their cooling rate is larger than those of typical carbon-oxygen white dwarfs and they fade to invisibility in short timescales. Consequently, they constitute a good candidate for explaining the microlensing results. Here, we examine in detail this hypothesis by using the most recent and up-to-date cooling tracks for massive white dwarfs and a Monte Carlo simulator which takes into account the most relevant Galactic inputs. We find that oxygen-neon white dwarfs cannot account for a substantial fraction of the microlensing depth towards the LMC, independently of the adopted initial mass function, although some microlensing events could be due to oxygen--neon white dwarfs. The white dwarf population contributes at most a 5% to the mass of the Galactic halo.

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