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大质量星的VLT-FLAMES巡天:麦哲伦星云中B型星的大气参数和自转速度分布

The VLT-FLAMES survey of massive stars: atmospheric parameters and rotational velocity distributions for B-type stars in the Magellanic Clouds

I. Hunter, D. J. Lennon, P. L. Dufton, C. Trundle, S. Simon-Diaz, S. J. Smartt, R. S. I. Ryans, C. J. Evans

摘要:

我们提供了大气参数和旋转速度的大样本(~400)的O-和早期B型恒星,分析均匀和一致的方式,用于约束理论模型。旋转速度与演化轨迹的比较表明,核心氢燃烧的结束比目前预测的要晚。我们还表明,在现场观察到的大量发光的蓝超巨星不太可能直接从主序星大质量O型恒星演化而来,因为它们的低旋转速度或在H-R图上的位置都没有预测到。我们认为蓝圈或质量转移双星系统可能会填充蓝超巨星制度。通过将麦哲伦云恒星的旋转速度分布与类似的银河样本进行比较,我们发现(在3西格玛置信水平下)SMC中的大质量恒星(大于8兆太阳)比太阳附近的恒星旋转得更快。然而,银河系和大麦哲伦星系的自转速度分布之间似乎没有显着差异。我们发现,在SMC和LMC中的vsini分布可以用内禀旋转速度分布来模拟,内禀旋转速度分布在175 km/s(SMC)和100 km/s(LMC)处是高斯峰。我们发现,在SMC的NGC 346中,10- 25 Msun的主序星似乎比它们的更高质量的同行更快地旋转。最近,Yoon等人(2006年)通过模拟快速旋转的大质量恒星祖先来确定伽马射线暴的发生率。我们测得的10- 25 Msun恒星的旋转速度分布在略高于他们假设的速度时达到峰值,这支持了GRB可能来自初始质量低至14 Msun的低金属丰度快速旋转体的想法。(节略)。

英文摘要:

We provide atmospheric parameters and rotational velocities of a large sample (~400) of O- and early B-type stars, analysed in a homogeneous and consistent manner, for use in constraining theoretical models. Comparison of the rotational velocities with evolutionary tracks suggest that the end of core hydrogen burning occurs later than currently predicted. We also show that the large number of the luminous blue supergiants observed in the fields are unlikely to have directly evolved from main-sequence massive O-type stars as neither their low rotational velocities or position on the H-R diagram are predicted. We suggest that blue-loops or mass-transfer binary systems may populate the blue supergiant regime. By comparing the rotational velocity distributions of the Magellanic Cloud stars to a similar Galactic sample we find that (at 3sigma confidence level) massive stars (above 8Msun) in the SMC rotate faster than those in the solar neighbourhood. However there appears to be no significant difference between the rotational velocity distributions in the Galaxy and the LMC. We find that the vsini distributions in the SMC and LMC can modelled with an intrinsic rotational velocity distribution which is a Gaussian peaking at 175km/s (SMC) and 100km/s (LMC). We find that in NGC346 in the SMC, the 10-25Msun main-sequence stars appear to rotate faster than their higher mass counterparts. Recently Yoon et al. (2006) have determined rates of GRBs by modelling rapidly rotating massive star progenitors. Our measured rotational velocity distribution for the 10-25Msun stars is peaked at slightly higher velocities than they assume, supporting the idea that GRBs could come from rapid rotators with initial masses as low as 14Msun at low metallicities. (abridged).

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