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热门DQ白矮星:与众不同

Hot DQ White Dwarfs: Something Different

P. Dufour, G. Fontaine, J. Liebert, G. D. Schmidt, N. Behara

摘要:

我们提出了一个详细的分析,所有已知的热DQ白矮星在第四次数据发布的斯隆数字巡天(SDSS)最近发现有碳占主导地位的大气。我们的光谱和光度分析表明,这些物体的有效温度都在~ 18,000和24,000 K之间。表面组成被发现是完全由碳占主导地位,所揭示的H β和HeI 4471线的情况下(或在少数情况下的微量测定)。我们发现,除了一个物体外,所有物体的表面重力似乎都是“正常的”,大约log g = 8.0,而一个物体可能接近log g = 9.0。在一个物体中通过分光偏振法直接检测到弱磁场的存在,在另外两个物体中怀疑存在弱磁场。我们认为这些奇怪的恒星可能是怪异的PG 1159恒星H1504+65的冷却版本,并在后AGB阶段形成一个新的氢和氦缺乏的天体家族。最后,我们提出了专门用于每个热DQ的完全非绝热计算的结果,表明只有SDSS J142625.70+575218.4预计将表现出光度变化。这一结果与Montgomery等人最近的观测结果非常一致,Montgomery等人发现J142625.70+575218.4是2008年2月调查的6颗热DQ白矮星中唯一的一颗变星。

英文摘要:

We present a detailed analysis of all the known Hot DQ white dwarfs in the Fourth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) recently found to have carbon dominated atmospheres. Our spectroscopic and photometric analysis reveals that these objects all have effective temperatures between ~18,000 and 24,000 K. The surface composition is found to be completely dominated by carbon, as revealed by the absence of Hbeta and HeI 4471 lines (or determination of trace amount in a few cases). We find that the surface gravity of all objects but one seems to be ''normal'' and around log g = 8.0 while one is likely near log g = 9.0. The presence of a weak magnetic field is directly detected by spectropolarimetry in one object and is suspected in two others. We propose that these strange stars could be cooled down versions of the weird PG1159 star H1504+65 and form a new family of hydrogen and helium deficient objects following the post-AGB phase. Finally, we present the results of full nonadiabatic calculations dedicated specifically to each of the Hot DQ that show that only SDSS J142625.70+575218.4 is expected to exhibit luminosity variations. This result is in excellent agreement with recent observations by Montgomery et al. who find that J142625.70+575218.4 is the only pulsator among 6 Hot DQ white dwarfs surveyed in February 2008.

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