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白矮星伴星的年龄

The Age of White Dwarf Companions

S. Weston, R. Napiwotzki

摘要:

对双简并系统中的单线白矮星进行了光谱研究,并讨论了它们的双星演化。模拟光谱的Halpha区域被用来推导上限的不可见的组件的温度,从而冷却年龄的下限。这是做了一系列假设的二次质量和最小冷却年龄推导。结果进行了比较与众所周知的参数的可见的主要,这使我们能够确定一个下限的冷却年龄差异的两个WD。在我们的样本中的十个系统中的大多数具有不大于0.5Gyr的最小年龄差,并且它们的小轨道分离高度暗示至少一个不稳定的传质阶段。然而,稳定的第一传质阶段是可行的,因为年龄差异小于1Gyr。结果表明,不稳定的质量传递是最有可能的最终接触二进制的情况下发生在DD系统,但第一传质阶段不受约束。

英文摘要:

We carried out a spectroscopic investigation of single lined white dwarfs (WDs) in double degenerate (DD) systems and discuss their binary evolution. Simulated spectra of the Halpha region are used to derive upper limits on the temperature of the invisible component and thus lower limits on the cooling age. This is done for a range of hypothetical secondary masses and a minimum cooling age deduced. Results are compared with the well known parameters of the visible primary, which allows us to determine a lower limit for the cooling age difference of both WDs. Most of the ten systems in our sample have a minimum age difference of not larger than 0.5Gyr and their small orbital separation is highly suggestive of at least one unstable mass transfer phase. However, a stable first mass transfer phase is feasible as the age difference is less then 1Gyr. The results imply that unstable mass transfer is the most likely final contact binary scenario to have occurred in DD systems but the first mass transfer phase is not constrained.

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