We present deep photometric observations of the open cluster NGC 2477 using HST/WFPC2. By identifying seven cluster white dwarf candidates, we present an analysis of the white dwarf age of this cluster, using both the traditional method of fitting isochrones to the white dwarf cooling sequence, and by employing a new Bayesian statistical technique that has been developed by our group. This new method performs an objective, simultaneous model fit of the cluster and stellar parameters (namely age, metallicity, distance, reddening, as well as individual stellar masses, mass ratios, and cluster membership) to the photometry. Based on this analysis, we measure a white dwarf age of 1.035 +/- 0.054 +/- 0.087 Gyr (uncertainties represent the goodness of model fits and discrepancy among models, respectively), in good agreement with the cluster's main sequence turnoff age. This work is part of our ongoing work to calibrate main sequence turnoff and white dwarf ages using open clusters, and to improve the precision of cluster ages to the ~5% level.
In this paper, we present a detailed asteroseismological analysis of six GW Vir stars including the observations collected by the TESS mission. We processed and analyzed TESS observations of RX J2117+3412, HS 2324+3944, NGC 6905, NGC 1501, NGC 2371, and K 1-16. We carried out a detailed asteroseismological analysis of these stars on the basis of PG 1159 evolutionary models that take into account the complete evolution of the progenitor stars. In total, we extracted 58 periodicities from the TESS light curves using a standard pre-whitening procedure to derive the potential pulsation frequencies…
A new detailed examination of white dwarfs in NGC3532 and NGC2287
本文介绍了中等年龄疏散星团NGC 3532和NGC 2287的白矮星候选成员的光度和光谱研究结果。在调查的9个天体中,确定有6个可能是星团的成员,4个在NGC 3532,2个在NGC 2287。对于这六颗白矮星,我们使用我们对它们冷却时间的估计以及星系团的年龄来限制它们祖先恒星的寿命和质量。我们研究了这些物体在初始质量-最终质量空间中的位置,发现它们现在没有提供先前调查所建议的初始质量-最终质量关系中的大量分散的证据。相反,我们证明,当结合目前的数据从其他太阳金属性疏散星团和天狼星双星系统,他们暗示在IFMR是陡峭的初始质量范围3 M $_{\odot}$ $\simless$ M $_{\rm init}$ $\simless$ 4 M $_{\odot}$比在祖质量立即低于和高于此。这种形式通常与恒星演化模型的预测一致,并且可以帮助人口合成模型再现在白矮星质量分布主峰的高质量端观察到的相对急剧下降。
Pulsating hydrogen-deficient white dwarfs and pre-white dwarfs observed with TESS VI. Asteroseismology of the GW Vir-type central star of the Planetary Nebula NGC 246
The white dwarf cooling sequence of NGC 6791: a unique tool for stellar evolution
NGC 6791是一个被充分研究的富含金属的疏散星团,它离我们如此之近,以至于可以成像到比其白矮星冷却序列终止时更暗的光度,从而允许对其白矮星人口进行深入研究。我们使用蒙特卡罗模拟器,采用最新的进化冷却序列的白矮星与富氢和缺氢的气氛,与碳氧和氦的核心。碳-氧核的冷却顺序可以解释液相中Ne ^[22]的沉降和结晶时碳-氧相分离所引起的延迟。我们没有发现大量氦核白矮星的证据,因此我们的结果支持这样的建议,即白矮星光度函数的明亮峰值的起源只能归因于未解决的二进制白矮星的人口。此外,我们的研究结果表明,未解决的二进制人口的二次质量的数量分布增加的质量比之间的祖先系统的二次和主要组件。我们还发现,所观察到的冷却序列似乎能够限制存在的祖子群体具有不同的化学成分和非DA白矮星的分数。我们的模拟对NGC 6791的恒星星族的重要特征进行了有趣的限制。特别地,我们发现单个氦核白矮星的比例必须小于5%,金属丰度为零的恒星子种群必须小于12%,而如果子种群的金属丰度为太阳,上限为~ 8%。最后,我们还发现非DA白矮星在这个星系团中所占的比例非常小,小于6%。
Two Massive White Dwarfs from NGC 2323 and the Initial-Final Mass Relation for Progenitors of 4 to 6.5 M$_\odot$
我们用凯克低分辨率成像光谱仪观测了富疏散星团NGC 2323(M50)中的10颗白矮星候选者。光谱显示八颗是DA白矮星,其中六颗具有适合我们分析的高信噪比。其中两颗白矮星与单一演化的星团成员一致,都是高质量的$\sim$ 1.07 M $_\odot$,并给出了4.69 M $_\odot$的等效祖先质量。为了补充这些新的高质量白矮星并分析初末质量关系(IFMR),我们还从公开的数据中观察了30颗白矮星,它们大多都是高质量的($\gtrsim$ 0.9 M $_\odot$)。这些原始公布的数据表现出显著的分散性,为了测试这种分散性是真实的还是仅仅是系统学的结果,我们统一分析了白矮星的光谱,并采用了彻底的测光技术来获得其母星系团的统一星系团参数。由此产生的IFMR散射显着减少,认为质量损失率是不随机的性质,并在金属丰度和质量分析的范围内,在这项工作中,质量损失是不是高度敏感的金属丰度的变化。最后,当采用基于Y $^2$等时线的星系团年龄时,高质量IFMR的斜率仍然很陡,并且与中等质量白矮星的斜率一致,给出了3至6.5 M $_\odot$的祖先质量的线性IFMR。相比之下,当采用基于PARSEC等时线的稍年轻的星系团年龄时,高质量IFMR在4 M $_\odot$的初始质量附近有适度的周转。
NGC 6397是最有趣、观测最好、理论研究最多的球状星团之一。现有的观测数据使我们能够研究低金属丰度祖先的理论白矮星冷却序列的可靠性,确定其年龄和未解决的双星的百分比,并评估该星系团的其他重要特征,如初始质量函数的斜率,或具有缺氢大气的白矮星的比例。本文对NGC 6397中的白矮星进行了综合研究。特别是,我们研究了颜色-星等图的形状,以及相应的星等和颜色分布。我们这样做使用最新的蒙特卡罗代码,结合了最新的和可靠的冷却序列和观测偏差的准确建模。我们发现我们的理论模型和观测数据之间有很好的一致性。特别是,我们发现,这种协议是最好的冷却序列,考虑到残余氢燃烧。这一结果具有重要的后果的演化过程中的热脉冲渐近巨星分支阶段的祖星,因为它意味着可观的第三次疏浚在低质量,低金属丰度的祖星预计不会发生。用1.0 Gyr的标准爆发持续时间,我们得到星团的年龄为12.8+0.50-0.75 Gyr。更大的年龄也与观测数据相一致,但需要更长的恒星形成初始爆发持续时间来拟合光度函数。我们的结论是,正确的白矮星opulation的球状星团的建模,结合使用的主序星的数量计数提供了一个独特的工具来模拟的球状星团的属性。
Recently, a new class of white dwarfs (``slowly cooling WDs'') has been identified in the globular cluster M13. The cooling time of these stars is increased by stable thermonuclear hydrogen burning in their residual envelope. These WDs are thought to be originated by horizontal branch (HB) stars populating the HB blue tail, which skipped the asymptotic giant branch phase. To further explore this phenomenon, we took advantage of deep photometric data acquired with the Hubble Space Telescope in the near-ultraviolet and investigate the bright portion of the WD cooling sequence in NGC 6752, anothe…
Detection of a White Dwarf companion to a Blue Straggler Star in the outskirts of globular cluster NGC 5466 with the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UVIT)
Discovery of a double white dwarf in the Galactic globular cluster NGC 6397
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen(哥廷根大学);Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg(埃尔朗根-纽伦堡大学);Liverpool John Moores University(利物浦约翰摩尔斯大学);University of California, San Diego(加州大学圣地亚哥分校)
The youngest white dwarf companion to a millisecond pulsar: Insights from NGC 362D
University of Bologna(博洛尼亚大学);INAF – Osservatorio di Astrofisica e Scienza dello Spazio(意大利国家天体物理研究所-天文与空间科学观测台);Universität Bielefeld(比勒费尔德大学);Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie(马克斯·普朗克射电天文研究所);INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma(意大利国家天体物理研究所-罗马天文台)
We report the discovery of extremely low-mass white dwarfs (ELM WDs) as a companion of blue straggler stars (BSSs) in the Galactic globular cluster NGC 362 using images from AstroSats Ultra Violet Imaging Telescope (UVIT). Spectral Energy Distributions (SEDs) for 26 FUV bright member BSSs are created using data from the UVIT, UVOT, Gaia EDR3, and the 2.2 m ESO/MPI telescope. A single SED is fitted to 14 BSSs, whereas double-SED fits revealed ELM WDs as binary companions in 12 of the 26 BSSs studied. The effective temperature, radius, luminosity and mass of the 12 ELM WDs are found to have a ra…
We present our final study of the white dwarf cooling sequence (WD CS) in the globular cluster NGC 6752. The investigation is the main goal of a dedicated Hubble Space Telescope large Program, for which all the observations are now collected. The WD CS luminosity function (LF) is confirmed to peak at m_F606W = 29.3+/-0.1, consistent within uncertainties with what has been previously reported, and is now complete down to m_F606W~29.7. We have performed robust and conclusive comparisons with model predictions that show how the theoretical LF for hydrogen envelope WD models closely follow the sha…
Aims. We present a new technique to estimate the relative ages of multiple stellar populations hosted by five globular clusters: NGC 104 (47 Tuc), NGC 6121 (M4), NGC 6352, NGC 6362 and NGC 6723. Methods. We used the catalogs of the database "HST UV Globular cluster Survey (HUGS)" to create color-magnitude and two-color diagrams of the Globular Clusters. We identified the multiple populations within each globular cluster, and we divided them into two main stellar populations: POPa or first generation (1G) and POPb, composed of all the successive generations of stars. The new technique allows us…
We present new isochrone fits to colour-magnitude diagrams of the Galactic globular clusters NGC\,288, NGC\,362, and NGC\,6218 (M12). We utilize a lot of photometric bands from the ultraviolet to mid-infrared by use of data from the {\it HST}, {\it Gaia}, unWISE, Pan-STARRS, and other photometric sources. In our isochrone fitting we use theoretical models and isochrones from the Dartmouth Stellar Evolution Program and Bag of Stellar Tracks and Isochrones for $α$-enhanced abundance [$α$/Fe]$=+0.40$, different helium abundances, and a metallicity of about [Fe/H]$=-1.3$ adopted from the literatur…