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具有高金属丰度祖先的白矮星的演化:22 Ne扩散的作用

Evolution of white dwarf stars with high-metallicity progenitors: the role of 22Ne diffusion

Leandro G. Althaus, Enrique García-Berro, Isabel Renedo, Jordi Isern, Alejandro H. Córsico, Rene D. Rohrmann

摘要:

在富含金属的疏散星团NGC 6791中,主序关闭年龄和白矮星冷却年龄之间存在很大的差异,基于此,我们计算了一个白矮星演化序列网格,该网格第一次包含了22 Ne沉淀和碳/氧结晶相分离过程所释放的能量。该网格覆盖了0.52 ~ 1.0 Msun的质量范围,适合于富金属星系团中白矮星的研究。进化计算的基础上,从这两个过程中释放的能量的详细和自洽的治疗,以及就业的现实的碳/氧配置文件,相关的碳/氧相分离释放的能量的准确评估。我们发现,22 Ne沉降强烈延迟冷却速率的白矮星源于祖先与高金属丰度在中等亮度,而碳/氧相分离增加了相当大的延迟在低光度。冷却时间对22 Ne扩散系数实际值中可能的不确定性很敏感。通过因子2改变扩散系数,导致大约的最大年龄差异。8-20%,取决于恒星质量。我们发现,核心化学变化导致的延迟幅度与解决NGC 6791年龄差异所需的白矮星冷却速率减慢是一致的。

英文摘要:

Motivated by the strong discrepancy between the main sequence turn-off age and the white dwarf cooling age in the metal-rich open cluster NGC 6791, we compute a grid of white dwarf evolutionary sequences that incorporates for the first time the energy released by the processes of 22Ne sedimentation and of carbon/oxygen phase separation upon crystallization. The grid covers the mass range from 0.52 to 1.0 Msun, and it is appropriate for the study of white dwarfs in metal-rich clusters. The evolutionary calculations are based on a detailed and self-consistent treatment of the energy released from these two processes, as well as on the employment of realistic carbon/oxygen profiles, of relevance for an accurate evaluation of the energy released by carbon/oxygen phase separation. We find that 22Ne sedimentation strongly delays the cooling rate of white dwarfs stemming from progenitors with high metallicities at moderate luminosities, whilst carbon/oxygen phase separation adds considerable delays at low luminosities. Cooling times are sensitive to possible uncertainties in the actual value of the diffusion coefficient of 22Ne. Changing the diffusion coefficient by a factor of 2, leads to maximum age differences of approx. 8-20% depending on the stellar mass. We find that the magnitude of the delays resulting from chemical changes in the core is consistent with the slow down in the white dwarf cooling rate that is required to solve the age discrepancy in NGC 6791.

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