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在UKIRT红外深空巡天第二次数据发布中识别的冷白矮星

Cool White Dwarfs Identified in the Second Data Release of the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey

N. Lodieu, S. K. Leggett, P. Bergeron, A. Nitta

摘要:

我们将UKIRT红外深空巡天大面积巡天的第二次数据发布与斯隆数字巡天的第五次数据发布配对,从测光和天体测量中确定了十个冷白矮星候选者。在这十颗中,有一颗以前被认为是非常冷的白矮星。我们已经使用北双子座上的GMOS-N摄谱仪获得了七个候选者的光谱,并确认了所有七个都是白矮星。我们的测光和天体测量表明,剩下的两个物体也是白矮星。测光和光谱的模型分析表明,七个新确认的白矮星和两个新的可能的白矮星的有效温度范围Teff = 5400-6600 K。我们对先前已知的白矮星的分析证实它是冷的,Teff = 3800 K。这颗矮星的冷却年龄为8.7 Gyr,而9颗~6000 K的白矮星的冷却年龄为1.8-3.6 Gyr。我们无法从现有的数据中确定白矮星的质量,因此我们无法限制白矮星的总年龄。样本中最冷的白矮星的冷却年龄很大,加上它的切向速度估计很低,这表明它是薄盘的一个老成员,或者是银河系厚盘的一个成员,年龄为10-11 Gyr。较温暖的白矮星似乎具有典型的厚盘甚至晕的速度;这些可能是非常古老的低质量恒星的残余,或者它们可能是相对年轻的薄盘天体,具有异常高的空间运动。

英文摘要:

We have paired the Second Data Release of the Large Area Survey of the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey with the Fifth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to identify ten cool white dwarf candidates, from their photometry and astrometry. Of these ten, one was previously known to be a very cool white dwarf. We have obtained optical spectroscopy for seven of the candidates using the GMOS-N spectrograph on Gemini North, and have confirmed all seven as white dwarfs. Our photometry and astrometry indicates that the remaining two objects are also white dwarfs. Model analysis of the photometry and available spectroscopy shows that the seven confirmed new white dwarfs, and the two new likely white dwarfs, have effective temperatures in the range Teff = 5400-6600 K. Our analysis of the previously known white dwarf confirms that it is cool, with Teff = 3800 K. The cooling age for this dwarf is 8.7 Gyr, while that of the nine ~6000 K white dwarfs is 1.8-3.6 Gyr. We are unable to determine the masses of the white dwarfs from the existing data, and therefore we cannot constrain the total ages of the white dwarfs. The large cooling age for the coolest white dwarf in the sample, combined with its low estimated tangential velocity, suggests that it is an old member of the thin disk, or a member of the thick disk of the Galaxy, with an age 10-11 Gyr. The warmer white dwarfs appear to have velocities typical of the thick disk or even halo; these may be very old remnants of low-mass stars, or they may be relatively young thin disk objects with unusually high space motion.

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