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鲸鱼座ZZ星星震学的新化学剖面

New chemical profiles for the asteroseismology of ZZ Ceti stars

L. G. Althaus, A. H. Córsico, A. Bischoff-Kim, A. D. Romero, I. Renedo, E. García-Berro, M. M. Miller Bertolami

摘要:

我们计算新的化学配置文件的核心和信封的白矮星适合脉动研究的鲸鱼座ZZ星。这些配置文件中提取的完整的演化的祖星,通过主序列和热脉冲渐近巨星分支(AGB)的阶段,并从随时间变化的元素扩散过程中白矮星的演变。讨论了初末质量关系对白矮星碳氧组成的重要性。特别是,我们发现,中心的氧丰度可能被低估了约15%,如果白矮星的质量被假定为在第一个热脉冲之前的氢的核心质量。我们还讨论了在ZZ鲸鱼座恒星的热脉冲AGB阶段和元素扩散相关的阶段的计算的最外层的化学配置文件的重要性。我们发现一个强烈的依赖外层化学分层的恒星质量。特别是,在质量较小的模型中,在热脉冲AGB阶段期间建立的氦层中的双层结构在达到ZZ Ceti阶段时不会通过扩散去除。最后,我们进行绝热脉动计算,并讨论了我们的新的化学配置文件的ZZ鲸鱼座恒星的脉动性质的影响。我们发现,整个$g-$模式周期谱和这些脉动白矮星的模式捕获的性质,从我们的新的化学配置文件是实质上不同的化学配置文件的基础上广泛使用的现有的星震研究。因此,我们预计从我们的化学剖面得出的星震学模型将与迄今发现的模型有很大不同。

英文摘要:

We compute new chemical profiles for the core and envelope of white dwarfs appropriate for pulsational studies of ZZ Ceti stars. These profiles are extracted from the complete evolution of progenitor stars, evolved through the main sequence and the thermally-pulsing asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stages, and from time-dependent element diffusion during white dwarf evolution. We discuss the importance of the initial-final mass relationship for the white dwarf carbon-oxygen composition. In particular, we find that the central oxygen abundance may be underestimated by about 15% if the white dwarf mass is assumed to be the hydrogen-free core mass before the first thermal pulse. We also discuss the importance for the chemical profiles expected in the outermost layers of ZZ Ceti stars of the computation of the thermally-pulsing AGB phase and of the phase in which element diffusion is relevant. We find a strong dependence of the outer layer chemical stratification on the stellar mass. In particular, in the less massive models, the double-layered structure in the helium layer built up during the thermally-pulsing AGB phase is not removed by diffusion by the time the ZZ Ceti stage is reached. Finally, we perform adiabatic pulsation calculations and discuss the implications of our new chemical profiles for the pulsational properties of ZZ Ceti stars. We find that the whole $g-$mode period spectrum and the mode-trapping properties of these pulsating white dwarfs as derived from our new chemical profiles are substantially different from those based on chemical profiles widely used in existing asteroseismological studies. Thus, we expect the asteroseismological models derived from our chemical profiles to be significantly different from those found thus far.

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