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氦-变星a Cen的多普勒成像

Doppler imaging of the helium-variable star a Cen

David A. Bohlender, J. B. Rice, P. Hechler

摘要:

氦特有的恒星a Cen除了其众所周知的极端氦变率外,还表现出铁、氮和氧等元素的线轮廓变化。新的高S/N,高分辨率的光谱被用来执行一个定量测量的丰度的恒星和确定的关系,较重的元素在恒星表面的氦浓度和磁场方向的浓度。多普勒图像已经使用Rice和其他人在早期论文中描述的程序创建。一个替代的表面丰度映射代码已被用来模拟氦线的变化后,我们的多普勒成像的某些个别氦线产生平庸的结果。我们证实了长期存在的氦丰富和氦贫半球的一个岑,我们测量的差异超过两个数量级的氦丰度从一侧的恒星到其他。在氦丰富的半球的大部分地区,氦的过剩系数约为5。特别值得注意的是,我们发现贫氦半球具有非常高的氦-3丰度,约等于氦-4丰度。因此,Cen是氦-3恒星小组的新成员,也是该类中第一个公认的磁性成员。对于这里研究的三种金属,在赤道附近有两个与正磁场最大值相一致的强丰度集中区和两个稍弱的丰度集中区,其中氦浓度集中区位于中心位置,大致位于磁场的负峰值处,另一个强丰度集中区位于赤道附近,这不能用与氦丰度的任何简单对称性来解释或视磁场主极位置。

英文摘要:

The helium-peculiar star a Cen exhibits line profile variations of elements such as iron, nitrogen and oxygen in addition to its well-known extreme helium variability. New high S/N, high-resolution spectra are used to perform a quantitative measurement of the abundances of the star and determine the relation of the concentrations of the heavier elements on the surface of the star to the helium concentration and the magnetic field orientation. Doppler images have been created using programs described in earlier papers by Rice and others. An alternative surface abundance mapping code has been used to model the helium line variations after our Doppler imaging of certain individual helium lines produced mediocre results. We confirm the long-known existence of helium-rich and helium-poor hemispheres on a Cen and we measure a difference of more than two orders of magnitude in helium abundance from one side of the star to the other. Helium is overabundant by a factor of about 5 over much of the helium-rich hemisphere. Of particular note is our discovery that the helium-poor hemisphere has a very high abundance of helium-3, approximately equal to the helium-4 abundance. a Cen is therefore a new member of the small group of helium-3 stars and the first well-established magnetic member of the class. For the three metals investigated here, there are two strong concentrations of abundance near the equator consistent with the positive magnetic maximum and two somewhat weaker concentrations of abundance where the helium concentration is centered and roughly where the negative peak of the magnetic field would be found. Another strong concentration is found near the equator and this is not explainable in terms of any simple symmetry with the helium abundance or the apparent magnetic field main polar locations.

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