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当一颗老恒星闷烧时:S-型AGB恒星碳氢化合物排放的探测

When an old star smolders: On the detection of hydrocarbon emission from S-type AGB stars

K. Smolders, B. Acke, T. Verhoelst, J. A. D. L. Blommaert, L. Decin, S. Hony, G. C. Sloan, P. Neyskens, S. Van Eck, A. A. Zijlstra, H. Van Winckel

摘要:

多环芳烃(PAHs)产生的特征红外发射波段,已被观察到在广泛的天体物理环境,其中碳质材料受到紫外线(UV)辐射。虽然多环芳烃预计会在富含碳的AGB恒星中形成,但到目前为止,它们只在热伴星提供硬辐射场的双星系统中被观察到。在这封信中,我们提出了四个S-型AGB星的低分辨率红外光谱,从90个S-型AGB星的样品上的斯皮策卫星上的红外光谱仪观测。这四颗恒星的光谱显示了PAH分子的典型红外特征。我们证实了中心恒星的温度与7.9 μm特征的质心波长之间的相关性,该特征存在于温度范围从3000到12000 K的各种恒星中。本文提出的四个来源中的三个将这种关系扩展到较低的温度。我们认为,碳氢化合物的混合物,我们看到在这些S-星具有丰富的脂肪族成分。第四颗星BZ CMa偏离了这种相关性。基于与演化双星TU Tau的相似性,我们预测BZ CMa也有一个热伴星。

英文摘要:

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) produce characteristic infrared emission bands that have been observed in a wide range of astrophysical environments, where carbonaceous material is subjected to ultraviolet (UV) radiation. Although PAHs are expected to form in carbon-rich AGB stars, they have up to now only been observed in binary systems where a hot companion provides a hard radiation field. In this letter, we present low-resolution infrared spectra of four S-type AGB stars, selected from a sample of 90 S-type AGB stars observed with the infrared spectrograph aboard the Spitzer satellite. The spectra of these four stars show the typical infrared features of PAH molecules. We confirm the correlation between the temperature of the central star and the centroid wavelength of the 7.9 μm feature, present in a wide variety of stars spanning a temperature range from 3 000 to 12 000 K. Three of four sources presented in this paper extend this relation towards lower temperatures. We argue that the mixture of hydrocarbons we see in these S-stars has a rich aliphatic component. The fourth star, BZ CMa, deviates from this correlation. Based on the similarity with the evolved binary TU Tau, we predict that BZ CMa has a hot companion as well.

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