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逃跑的白矮星LP400-22有伴星

The Runaway White Dwarf LP400-22 Has a Companion

Mukremin Kilic, Warren R. Brown, Carlos Allende Prieto, B. Swift, S. J. Kenyon, J. Liebert, M. A. Agueros

摘要:

本文报道了极低质量白矮星LP 400 -22的径向速度伴星的探测。白矮星的径向速度变化的半振幅为119 km/s,周期为0.98776天,这意味着伴星质量M > 0.37 Msun。光学测光法排除了主序星伴星的可能性。因此,看不见的伴星是另一颗白矮星或中子星。利用自行测量和双星的径向速度,我们发现它有一个不寻常的银河系轨道。LP 400 -22正以396 km/s的速度远离银河系中心,这很难用超新星逃逸抛射机制来解释。与银河系中心这样的大质量黑洞的动力学相互作用原则上可以解释它的奇特速度,如果它的祖先是一个由一个近距离双星和一个遥远的第三伴星组成的三星系统。在获得更好的自行之前,我们认为LP 400 -22很可能是一颗轨道非常不寻常的晕星。

英文摘要:

We report the detection of a radial velocity companion to the extremely low mass white dwarf LP400-22. The radial velocity of the white dwarf shows variations with a semi-amplitude of 119 km/s and a 0.98776 day period, which implies a companion mass of M > 0.37 Msun. The optical photometry rules out a main sequence companion. Thus the invisible companion is another white dwarf or a neutron star. Using proper motion measurements and the radial velocity of the binary system, we find that it has an unusual Galactic orbit. LP400-22 is moving away from the Galactic center with a velocity of 396 km/s, which is very difficult to explain by supernova runaway ejection mechanisms. Dynamical interactions with a massive black hole like that in the Galactic center can in principle explain its peculiar velocity, if the progenitor was a triple star system comprised of a close binary and a distant tertiary companion. Until better proper motions become available, we consider LP400-22 to be most likely a halo star with a very unusual orbit.

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