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脉动白矮星与精密星震学

Pulsating White Dwarf Stars and Precision Asteroseismology

D. E. Winget, S. O. Kepler

摘要:

银河系的历史就写在白矮星上。它们的表面性质暗示了在极端条件下由物质组成的内部。自发现以来的四十年里,脉动的白矮星已经从侧面展示好奇心,成为揭开宇宙深层奥秘的重要工具。创新的观测技术和理论建模工具为精确的星震学注入了活力。我们只是在学习使用这个强大的工具,用观测到的频率和它们的时间变化率来面对理论模型。有了这个工具,我们校准白矮星宇宙年代学;我们探索状态方程;我们测量恒星质量,旋转速率和核反应速率;我们探索内部结晶的物理学;我们研究Ia型超新星祖先的结构,我们测试暗物质模型。白矮星的脉动是银河系历史的心跳,也是探索未知和奇异物理学的窗口。

英文摘要:

Galactic history is written in the white dwarf stars. Their surface properties hint at interiors composed of matter under extreme conditions. In the forty years since their discovery, pulsating white dwarf stars have moved from side-show curiosities to center stage as important tools for unraveling the deep mysteries of the Universe. Innovative observational techniques and theoretical modeling tools have breathed life into precision asteroseismology. We are just learning to use this powerful tool, confronting theoretical models with observed frequencies and their time rate-of-change. With this tool, we calibrate white dwarf cosmochronology; we explore equations of state; we measure stellar masses, rotation rates, and nuclear reaction rates; we explore the physics of interior crystallization; we study the structure of the progenitors of Type Ia supernovae, and we test models of dark matter. The white dwarf pulsations are at once the heartbeat of galactic history and a window into unexplored and exotic physics.

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