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具有高金属丰度祖先的氦核白矮星的演化和颜色

Evolution and colors of helium-core white dwarf stars with high-metallicity progenitors

L. G. Althaus, J. A. Panei, A. D. Romero, R. D. Rohrmann, A. H. Córsico, E. García-Berro, M. M. Miller Bertolami

摘要:

受最近在富金属星系团中发现的单氦核和双氦核白矮星的启发,我们提出了一套适合于研究此类白矮星的演化计算和颜色。本文还旨在研究稳定的氢燃烧是否可能构成由高金属丰度祖先产生的大质量He核白矮星的主要能量来源。白矮星序列是通过考虑具有超太阳金属丰度的祖星的演化历史而得到的。我们还纳入了一个自洽的,依赖于时间的重力沉降和化学扩散,以及剩余的核燃烧的治疗。我们发现,在白矮星演化的后期阶段,残余核燃烧的影响强烈依赖于富氢包层底部化学扩散的发生。当不考虑扩散时,残余氢燃烧强烈影响白矮星冷却的高级阶段,引入几个Gyr的演化延迟。相比之下,当考虑扩散时,残余核燃烧的作用被强烈地减轻,并且演化仅由存储在离子中的热含量决定。此外,对于我们所有的序列,我们提供了准确的颜色和幅度的基础上,新的和改进的非灰色模型大气,其中明确包括赖氨酸$α$准分子不透明度。

英文摘要:

Motivated by the recent detection of single and binary He-core white dwarfs in metal-rich clusters, we present a full set of evolutionary calculations and colors appropriate for the study of such white dwarfs. The paper is also aimed at investigating whether stable hydrogen burning may constitute a main source of energy for massive He-core white dwarfs resulting from high-metallicity progenitors. White dwarf sequences are derived by taking into account the evolutionary history of progenitor stars with supersolar metallicities. We also incorporate a self-consistent, time-dependent treatment of gravitational settling and chemical diffusion, as well as of the residual nuclear burning. We find that the influence of residual nuclear burning during the late stages of white dwarf evolution is strongly dependent on the occurrence of chemical diffusion at the base of the hydrogen-rich envelope. When no diffusion is considered, residual hydrogen burning strongly influences the advanced stages of white dwarf cooling, introducing evolutionary delays of several Gyr. By contrast, when diffusion is taken into account the role of residual nuclear burning is strongly mitigated, and the evolution is dictated only by the thermal content stored in the ions. In addition, for all of our sequences, we provide accurate color and magnitudes on the basis of new and improved non gray model atmospheres which explicitly include Ly$α$ quasi-molecular opacity.

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