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斯皮策搜寻低质量白矮星的亚恒星伴星

A Spitzer Search for Substellar Companions to Low Mass White Dwarfs

Mukremin Kilic, Warren R. Brown, B. McLeod

摘要:

单个低质量(M < 0.45 Msol)白矮星的形成情景包括来自富金属祖星的增强质量损失,或类似太阳的恒星与近距离大质量行星或棕矮星的共同包络相。这两种情况都表明,低质量的白矮星可能有行星。在这里,我们提出了一个斯皮策IRAC搜索的亚恒星和行星质量的同伴14个低质量的白矮星。我们的目标之一,HS 1653+7753,显示近红外和中红外通量过剩。然而,后续的MMT观测表明,这种过量是由于附近的解析源,这很可能是一个背景物体。另一个目标PG 2257+162显示出与晚型伴星相容的通量过剩。我们没有发现任何剩余目标的亚恒星同伴。此外,其中八颗恒星没有显示出任何径向速度变化,排除了包括其他白矮星在内的恒星质量同伴。我们的结论是,在我们的样本中,相当一部分低质量的白矮星没有恒星或大质量的棕矮星同伴。

英文摘要:

The formation scenarios for single low-mass (M < 0.45 Msol) white dwarfs include enhanced mass loss from a metal-rich progenitor star or a common envelope phase of a solar-like star with a close-in massive planet or a brown dwarf. Both scenarios suggest that low-mass white dwarfs may have planets. Here, we present a Spitzer IRAC search for substellar and planetary mass companions to 14 low-mass white dwarfs. One of our targets, HS 1653+7753, displays near- and mid-infrared flux excess. However, follow-up MMT observations show that this excess is due to a nearby resolved source, which is mostly likely a background object. Another target, PG 2257+162, shows flux excess compatible with a late-type stellar companion. We do not detect substellar companions to any of the remaining targets. In addition, eight of these stars do not show any radial velocity variations, ruling out stellar mass companions including other white dwarfs. We conclude that a significant fraction of the low-mass white dwarfs in our sample do not have stellar or massive brown dwarf companions.

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