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热次矮双星:它们的重致密伴星的质量和性质

Hot subdwarf binaries - Masses and nature of their heavy compact companions

Stephan Geier, Uli Heber, Heinz Edelmann, Thomas Kupfer, Ralf Napiwotzki, Philipp Podsiadlowski

摘要:

中子星和恒星质量的黑洞是大质量恒星的残余物,它们在超新星爆炸中结束了生命。这些奇异的物体只能在相对罕见的情况下进行研究。如果它们与亲密的同伴相互作用,它们就会成为明亮的X射线源。如果它们是中子星,它们可能被探测为中子星。银河系目前已知的此类系统只有几百个。然而,应该有更多的二进制与基本上看不见的紧凑的物体在非相互作用的二进制。在这里,我们报告的发现看不见的紧凑的同伴,以热的次矮星在密切的双星系统。热的次矮星是演化的氦核燃烧恒星,通常由于双星的相互作用,它们已经失去了大部分的氢包层。使用高分辨率的光谱,并假设潮汐同步的次矮星,我们能够约束的同伴质量的32个双星。虽然大多数热亚矮星双星都有白矮星或晚型主序星伴星,正如双星演化模型所预测的那样,至少5%的观测到的亚矮星必须有非常大质量的伴星:异常重的白矮星,中子星,在某些情况下,甚至是黑洞。我们提出的进化模型表明,这样的二进制文件确实可以形成,如果系统已经通过两个共同的信封阶段。在银河系中数量众多的热亚矮星和大质量致密天体之间的这种新联系可能会导致已知中子星和黑洞数量的巨大增加,并对这种黑暗的种群及其与X射线双星种群的进化联系有所了解。

英文摘要:

Neutron stars and stellar-mass black holes are the remnants of massive stars, which ended their lives in supernova explosions. These exotic objects can only be studied in relatively rare cases. If they are interacting with close companions they become bright X-ray sources. If they are neutron stars, they may be detected as pulsars. Only a few hundred such systems are presently known in the Galaxy. However, there should be many more binaries with basically invisible compact objects in non-interacting binaries. Here we report the discovery of unseen compact companions to hot subdwarfs in close binary systems. Hot subdwarfs are evolved helium-core-burning stars that have lost most of their hydrogen envelopes, often due to binary interactions. Using high-resolution spectra and assuming tidal synchronisation of the subdwarfs, we were able to constrain the companion masses of 32 binaries. While most hot subdwarf binaries have white-dwarf or late-type main sequence companions, as predicted by binary evolution models, at least 5% of the observed subdwarfs must have very massive companions: unusually heavy white dwarfs, neutron stars and, in some cases, even black holes. We present evolutionary models which show that such binaries can indeed form if the system has evolved through two common-envelope phases. This new connection between hot subdwarfs, which are numerous in the Galaxy, and massive compact objects may lead to a tremendous increase in the number of known neutron stars and black holes and shed some light on this dark population and its evolutionary link to the X-ray binary population.

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