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波江座HgMn双星66在无磁场条件下的化学斑点

Chemical spots in the absence of magnetic field in the binary HgMn star 66 Eridani

V. Makaganiuk, O. Kochukhov, N. Piskunov, S. V. Jeffers, C. M. Johns-Krull, C. U. Keller, M. Rodenhuis, F. Snik, H. C. Stempels, J. A. Valenti

摘要:

根据我们目前的理解,上主序化学特殊恒星的一个子类,称为汞锰(HgMn),是非磁性的。然而,最近在它们的表面上发现了化学不均匀性。与此同时,现代研究没有检测到强度超过1-100 G的全球磁场。我们的研究目标是在HgMn双星系统66 Eri中寻找磁场,并研究这两个组成部分的恒星表面的化学斑点。我们的分析是基于高品质的光谱偏振时间序列观测,在连续10个晚上在欧洲南方天文台3.6米望远镜的HARPSpol仪器。为了提高磁场搜索的灵敏度,我们采用了最小二乘反卷积(LSD)。我们使用光谱解缠来测量径向速度和研究线轮廓的变化。使用多线多普勒成像重建化学斑点的几何形状。我们报告了在66 Eri中未检测到磁场,纵向场的误差条为10-24 G。圆极化分布也不指示复杂表面磁场的任何特征。对于简单的偶极场配置,我们估计极场强度的上限为60-70 G。对于HgMn组分,我们发现Ti,Ba,Y和Sr的谱线的旋转周期等于轨道的变化。这些元素的表面地图重建与多普勒成像技术,显示相对不足的半球面临的次要组成部分。化学不均匀性的对比度范围从Ti的0.4到Ba的0.8。

英文摘要:

According to our current understanding, a subclass of the upper main sequence chemically peculiar stars, called mercury-manganese (HgMn), is non-magnetic. Nevertheless, chemical inhomogeneities were recently discovered on their surfaces. At the same time, no global magnetic fields stronger than 1-100 G are detected by modern studies. The goals of our study are to search for magnetic field in the HgMn binary system 66 Eri and to investigate chemical spots on the stellar surfaces of both components. Our analysis is based on high quality spectropolarimetric time-series observations obtained during 10 consecutive nights with the HARPSpol instrument at the ESO 3.6-m telescope. To increase the sensitivity of the magnetic field search we employed a least-squares deconvolution (LSD). We used spectral disentangling to measure radial velocities and study line profile variability. Chemical spot geometry was reconstructed using multi-line Doppler imaging. We report a non-detection of magnetic field in 66 Eri, with error bars 10-24 G for the longitudinal field. Circular polarization profiles also do not indicate any signatures of complex surface magnetic fields. For a simple dipolar field configuration we estimated an upper limit of the polar field strength to be 60-70 G. For the HgMn component we found variability in spectral lines of Ti, Ba, Y, and Sr with the rotational period equal to the orbital one. The surface maps of these elements reconstructed with the Doppler imaging technique, show relative underabundance on the hemisphere facing the secondary component. The contrast of chemical inhomogeneities ranges from 0.4 for Ti to 0.8 for Ba.

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