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物理分离过程中NGC 6791的8 Gyr白矮星冷却年龄

A white dwarf cooling age of 8 Gyr for NGC 6791 from physical separation processes

Enrique García-Berro, Santiago Torres, Leandro G. Althaus, Isabel Renedo, Pablo Lorén-Aguilar, Alejandro H. Córsico, René D. Rohrmann, Maurizio Salaris, Jordi Isern

摘要:

NGC 6791是一个被充分研究的疏散星团,它离我们如此之近,以至于可以成像到非常微弱的光度。主序关闭年龄(~8 Gyr)与白矮星冷却序终止年龄(~6 Gyr)有显著差异。一种可能的解释是,当白矮星冷却时,氦燃烧的灰烬之一22 Ne沉入这些恒星的内部深处。在较低的温度下,白矮星预计会结晶,典型的白矮星核心的主要成分12 C和16 O预计会发生相分离。这一系列的事件预计会导致冷却时间的显著延迟,但迄今为止尚未得到证实。在这里,我们报告说,正如理论上预期的那样,物理分离过程发生在白矮星的核心,解决了NGC 6791的年龄差异。

英文摘要:

NGC 6791 is a well studied open cluster1 that it is so close to us that can be imaged down to very faint luminosities. The main sequence turn-off age (~8 Gyr) and the age derived from the termination of the white dwarf cooling sequence (~6 Gyr) are significantly different. One possible explanation is that as white dwarfs cool, one of the ashes of helium burning, 22Ne, sinks in the deep interior of these stars. At lower temperatures, white dwarfs are expected to crystallise and phase separation of the main constituents of the core of a typical white dwarf, 12C and 16O, is expected to occur. This sequence of events is expected to introduce significant delays in the cooling times, but has not hitherto been proven. Here we report that, as theoretically anticipated, physical separation processes occur in the cores of white dwarfs, solving the age discrepancy for NGC 6791.

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