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大质量双星的化学均匀演化

Chemically homogeneous evolution in massive binaries

S. E. de Mink, M. Cantiello, N. Langer, O. R. Pols

摘要:

自转会对大质量恒星的演化产生严重的后果。它现在被认为是决定单个恒星最终命运的主要参数之一,与质量和金属丰度一起。在大质量快速旋转的恒星中,由旋转引起的混合过程可能非常有效,以至于中心产生的氦在整个包层中混合。这样的恒星在化学上几乎是均匀演化的。在低金属丰度时,它们仍然是蓝色和致密的,而它们逐渐演化成沃尔夫-拉叶星,并可能成为长伽马射线暴的祖先。在双星中,这种类型的演化可能是由于(I)非常接近的双星中的潮汐,由于(II)质量转移的结果,由于(III)两颗恒星合并的结果,以及(IV)当双星中的一个组件以非常高的初始旋转速率诞生时。由于这些恒星保持紧凑,演化通道与经典双星演化模型预测的非常不同。在这方面的贡献,我们讨论的例子,近化学均匀的演变非常接近潮汐锁定二进制。即使在这样非常接近的大质量双星中,恒星也可能保持紧凑,避免质量转移,而在经典图像中,洛希瓣溢出和合并是不可避免的。这类演化可能提供另一种形成紧沃尔夫-拉叶双星和大质量黑洞双星的途径。

英文摘要:

Rotation can have severe consequences for the evolution of massive stars. It is now considered as one of the main parameters, alongside mass and metallicity that determine the final fate of single stars. In massive, fast rotating stars mixing processes induced by rotation may be so efficient that helium produced in the center is mixed throughout the envelope. Such stars evolve almost chemically homogeneously. At low metallicity they remain blue and compact, while they gradually evolve into Wolf-Rayet stars and possibly into progenitors of long gamma-ray bursts. In binaries this type of evolution may occur because of (I) tides in very close binaries, as a result of (II) spin up by mass transfer, as result of (III) a merger of the two stars and (IV) when one of the components in the binary was born with a very high initial rotation rate. As these stars stay compact, the evolutionary channels are very different from what classical binary evolutionary models predict. In this contribution we discuss examples of nearly chemically homogeneous evolution in very close tidally-locked binaries. Even in such very close massive binaries, the stars may remain compact and avoid mass transfer, while Roche lobe overflow and a merger would be inevitable in the classical picture. This type of evolution may provide an alternative path to form tight Wolf-Rayet binaries and massive black hole binaries.

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