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白矮星平均质量的引力红移测定。DA星级

A Gravitational Redshift Determination of the Mean Mass of White Dwarfs. DA Stars

Ross E. Falcon, D. E. Winget, M. H. Montgomery, Kurtis A. Williams

摘要:

我们使用ESO SN Ia始祖巡天(SPY; Napiwotzki et al. 2001)拍摄的光谱测量了449颗非二元薄盘正常DA白矮星(WD)的H α和H β巴耳末线核的视速度(v_app)。假设这些WD是附近的,共同移动,我们纠正我们的速度,以当地的标准休息,使其余的恒星运动是随机的。通过对样本进行平均,我们得到平均引力红移<v_g>:我们发现<v_g>=<v_app>= 32.57 +/- 1.17 km/s。使用来自演化模型的质量-半径关系,这转化为平均质量为0.647 + 0.013 - 0.014 Msun。我们将其解释为所有DA的平均质量。我们的结果与之前的引力红移研究一致,但显著高于除了Tremblay &amp; Bergeron(2009)最近的发现之外的所有之前的光谱测定。由于重力红移方法是独立的表面重力从大气模型,我们调查的平均质量DA与光谱Teff以上和以下12000 K;拟合线配置文件给出了一个快速增加的平均质量与降低Teff。我们的结果与平均质量无显著变化一致:<M>^热= 0.640 +/- 0.014 Msun和<M>^冷= 0.686 + 0.035 - 0.039 Msun。

英文摘要:

We measure apparent velocities (v_app) of the Halpha and Hbeta Balmer line cores for 449 non-binary thin disk normal DA white dwarfs (WDs) using optical spectra taken for the ESO SN Ia Progenitor surveY (SPY; Napiwotzki et al. 2001). Assuming these WDs are nearby and co-moving, we correct our velocities to the Local Standard of Rest so that the remaining stellar motions are random. By averaging over the sample, we are left with the mean gravitational redshift, <v_g>: we find <v_g> = <v_app> = 32.57 +/- 1.17 km/s. Using the mass-radius relation from evolutionary models, this translates to a mean mass of 0.647 +0.013 -0.014 Msun. We interpret this as the mean mass for all DAs. Our results are in agreement with previous gravitational redshift studies but are significantly higher than all previous spectroscopic determinations except the recent findings of Tremblay & Bergeron (2009). Since the gravitational redshift method is independent of surface gravity from atmosphere models, we investigate the mean mass of DAs with spectroscopic Teff both above and below 12000 K; fits to line profiles give a rapid increase in the mean mass with decreasing Teff. Our results are consistent with no significant change in mean mass: <M>^hot = 0.640 +/- 0.014 Msun and <M>^cool = 0.686 +0.035 -0.039 Msun.

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