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大质量恒星的VLT-FLAMES巡天:旋转和氮富集是理解大质量恒星演化的关键

The VLT-FLAMES survey of massive stars: rotation and nitrogen enrichment as the key to understanding massive star evolution

I. Hunter, I. Brott, D. J. Lennon, N. Langer, P. L. Dufton, C. Trundle, S. J. Smartt, A. de Koter, C. J. Evans, R. S. I. Ryans

摘要:

旋转已经成为大质量恒星演化模型中的一个重要元素,特别是通过预测旋转混合。在这里,我们研究了一个样本的恒星,包括快速旋转,以约束这样的模型,并使用氮富集作为探针的混合过程。利用非LTE TLUSTY模式大气网格,估算了大麦云云中135颗自转速度高达~ 300 km/s的早期B型星的化学成分(C、N、O、Mg和Si)。演化模型,包括旋转混合,已产生试图重现这些意见,通过调整过冲和旋转混合参数,并产生合理的协议与我们的核心氢燃烧样品的60%。我们发现(不包括已知的双星)一个显着的人口的高度富氮的本征慢旋转vsini小于50公里/秒与我们的模型不兼容(约20%的样本)。此外,虽然我们发现与模型一致的富集的快速旋转体,但相对未富集(进一步~20%的样品)的进化(log g小于3.7dex)快速旋转体的观察挑战了旋转混合的概念。我们还发现,70%的蓝超巨星样本不能直接从氢燃烧的主序星演化而来。留给我们的是一幅图景,在那里,为了理解一群大质量主序星的表面特性,需要调用双星性,也许还需要化石磁场。

英文摘要:

Rotation has become an important element in evolutionary models of massive stars, specifically via the prediction of rotational mixing. Here, we study a sample of stars, including rapid rotators, to constrain such models and use nitrogen enrichments as a probe of the mixing process. Chemical compositions (C, N, O, Mg and Si) have been estimated for 135 early B-type stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud with projected rotational velocities up to ~300km/s using a non-LTE TLUSTY model atmosphere grid. Evolutionary models, including rotational mixing, have been generated attempting to reproduce these observations by adjusting the overshooting and rotational mixing parameters and produce reasonable agreement with 60% of our core hydrogen burning sample. We find (excluding known binaries) a significant population of highly nitrogen enriched intrinsic slow rotators vsini less than 50km/s incompatible with our models ~20% of the sample). Furthermore, while we find fast rotators with enrichments in agreement with the models, the observation of evolved (log g less than 3.7dex) fast rotators that are relatively unenriched (a further ~20% of the sample) challenges the concept of rotational mixing. We also find that 70% of our blue supergiant sample cannot have evolved directly from the hydrogen burning main-sequence. We are left with a picture where invoking binarity and perhaps fossil magnetic fields are required to understand the surface properties of a population of massive main sequence stars.

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