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脉动白矮星GD 358光变曲线拟合中温度变化和斜向脉动的证据

Evidence for Temperature Change and Oblique Pulsation from Light Curve Fits of the Pulsating White Dwarf GD 358

M. H. Montgomery, J. L. Provencal, A. Kanaan, Anjum S. Mukadam, S. E. Thompson, J. Dalessio, H. L. Shipman, D. E. Winget, S. O. Kepler, D. Koester

摘要:

对流驱动,最初由Brickhill(1991,1983)提出的脉动白矮星的机制,已经被普遍接受为DAV和DBV白矮星的一般线性不稳定机制。这种物理机制自然导致了一种非线性公式,再现了许多脉动白矮星的光变曲线。这个数值模型还可以提供恒星对流区的平均深度和脉动轴的倾斜角度的信息。本文给出了两组用DBV GD 358数据拟合非线性光变曲线的结果。我们的第一次拟合是基于2006年由全球望远镜(WET)收集的数据;该数据集是多周期的,包含至少12个单独的模式。我们的第二次拟合利用了1996年获得的数据,当时GD 358经历了激发频率的急剧变化,伴随着分数振幅的快速增加;在此期间,它基本上是单周期的。我们认为GD 358的对流区在1996年比2006年薄得多,我们解释这是由于其表面温度的短暂增加。此外,我们发现强有力的证据,斜脉动使用两套均匀分裂的三胞胎在2006年的数据。这是第一次在变白矮星中发现斜向脉动。

英文摘要:

Convective driving, the mechanism originally proposed by Brickhill (1991, 1983) for pulsating white dwarf stars, has gained general acceptance as the generic linear instability mechanism in DAV and DBV white dwarfs. This physical mechanism naturally leads to a nonlinear formulation, reproducing the observed light curves of many pulsating white dwarfs. This numerical model can also provide information on the average depth of a star's convection zone and the inclination angle of its pulsation axis. In this paper, we give two sets of results of nonlinear light curve fits to data on the DBV GD 358. Our first fit is based on data gathered in 2006 by the Whole Earth Telescope (WET); this data set was multiperiodic, containing at least 12 individual modes. Our second fit utilizes data obtained in 1996, when GD 358 underwent a dramatic change in excited frequencies accompanied by a rapid increase in fractional amplitude; during this event it was essentially monoperiodic. We argue that GD 358's convection zone was much thinner in 1996 than in 2006, and we interpret this as a result of a short-lived increase in its surface temperature. In addition, we find strong evidence of oblique pulsation using two sets of evenly split triplets in the 2006 data. This marks the first time that oblique pulsation has been identified in a variable white dwarf star.

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