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老白矮星的新冷却序列

New cooling sequences for old white dwarfs

Isabel Renedo, Leandro G. Althaus, Marcelo M. Miller Bertolami, Alejandra D. Romero, Alejandro H. Corsico, Rene D. Rohrmann, Enrique Garcia-Berro

摘要:

我们提出了适合于富氢DA白矮星研究的完整演化计算。这是通过将白矮星的祖先从零年龄的主序,通过核心氢燃烧阶段,氦燃烧阶段和热脉冲渐近巨分支阶段发展到白矮星阶段来完成的。完整的演化序列计算范围广泛的恒星质量和两种不同的金属丰度:Z=0.01,这是太阳附近的代表,和Z=0.001,这是适合于研究古老的恒星系统,如球状星团。在白矮星冷却阶段,我们计算自洽的阶段,其中核反应仍然是重要的,在外层的元素的扩散演化,最后,我们还考虑到所有相关的能源在内部深处的白矮星,如释放的潜热和释放的重力能,由于结晶时的碳-氧相分离。我们还基于一组新的改进的非灰色白矮星模型大气,为这些序列提供颜色和量级,其中包括最新的物理输入,例如莱曼阿尔法准分子不透明度。将计算推广到2,500 K的有效温度。我们的计算提供了一套均匀的演化冷却轨道适合老DA白矮星的质量和年龄的测定和不同的银河系人口的白矮星宇宙年代学。

英文摘要:

We present full evolutionary calculations appropriate for the study of hydrogen-rich DA white dwarfs. This is done by evolving white dwarf progenitors from the zero age main sequence, through the core hydrogen burning phase, the helium burning phase and the thermally pulsing asymptotic giant branch phase to the white dwarf stage. Complete evolutionary sequences are computed for a wide range of stellar masses and for two different metallicities: Z=0.01, which is representative of the solar neighborhood, and Z=0.001, which is appropriate for the study of old stellar systems, like globular clusters. During the white dwarf cooling stage we compute self-consistently the phase in which nuclear reactions are still important, the diffusive evolution of the elements in the outer layers and, finally, we also take into account all the relevant energy sources in the deep interior of the white dwarf, like the release of latent heat and the release of gravitational energy due to carbon-oxygen phase separation upon crystallization. We also provide colors and magnitudes for these sequences, based on a new set of improved non-gray white dwarf model atmospheres, which include the most up-to-date physical inputs like the Lyman alpha quasi-molecular opacity. The calculations are extended down to an effective temperature of 2,500 K. Our calculations provide a homogeneous set of evolutionary cooling tracks appropriate for mass and age determinations of old DA white dwarfs and for white dwarf cosmochronology of the different Galactic populations.

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