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白矮星边界层的低热传导?

Low heat conduction in white dwarf boundary layers?

F. K. Liu, F. Meyer, E. Meyer-Hofmeister, V. Burwitz

摘要:

Chandra和XMM-Newton观测到的静止矮新星的X射线谱提供了关于它们吸积的白矮星的边界层的新信息。观测和模型的比较,使我们能够提取的吸积层中的热导率的估计,并得出相关的物理过程的结论。我们计算了稠密的热边界层的结构,在重力和冷却下形成的白矮星表面的气体吸积从热稀薄ADAF型日冕流入。获得的密度和温度分布使我们能够计算出发射的X射线辐射的强度和光谱。它们强烈地依赖于热导率和质量吸积率的值。我们将我们的模型应用于矮新星系统VW Hyi,并将不同热导率值的预测光谱与观测光谱进行比较。我们发现一个显着的偏差的所有值的热导率是一个相当大的分数的斯皮策电导率。然而,当电导率约为斯皮策值的1%时,出现良好的拟合。这似乎也适用于其他处于静止状态的矮新星系统。我们比较这个结果与其他天体物理情况下的热传导。边界层中的热传导率的高度降低需要垂直于温度梯度的磁场。定位它们的起源在从热ADAF型日冕流的磁场吸积,我们发现,这些领域的动力学效应将导致空间间歇性的,本地化的吸积几何在白矮星表面。

英文摘要:

X-ray spectra of dwarf novae in quiescence observed by Chandra and XMM-Newton provide new information on the boundary layers of their accreting white dwarfs. Comparison of observations and models allows us to extract estimates for the thermal conductivity in the accretion layer and reach conclusions on the relevant physical processes. We calculate the structure of the dense thermal boundary layer that forms under gravity and cooling at the white dwarf surface on accretion of gas from a hot tenuous ADAF-type coronal inflow. The distribution of density and temperature obtained allows us to calculate the strength and spectrum of the emitted X-ray radiation. They depend strongly on the values of thermal conductivity and mass accretion rate. We apply our model to the dwarf nova system VW Hyi and compare the spectra predicted for different values of the thermal conductivity with the observed spectrum. We find a significant deviation for all values of thermal conductivity that are a sizable fraction of the Spitzer conductivity. A good fit arises however for a conductivity of about 1% of the Spitzer value. This also seems to hold for other dwarf nova systems in quiescence. We compare this result with thermal conduction in other astrophysical situations. The highly reduced thermal conductivity in the boundary layer requires magnetic fields perpendicular to the temperature gradient. Locating their origin in the accretion of magnetic fields from the hot ADAF-type coronal flow we find that dynamical effects of these fields will lead to a spatially intermittent, localized accretion geometry at the white dwarf surface.

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