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Y宝石的强可变紫外辐射:有伴星的AGB星的吸积活动?

Strong Variable Ultraviolet Emission from Y Gem: Accretion Activity in an AGB Star with a Binary Companion?

Raghvendra Sahai, James D. Neill, Armando Gil de Paz, Carmen Sánchez Contreras

摘要:

双星被认为会极大地影响AGB和后AGB恒星质量损失的历史和几何形状,但双星的观测证据非常缺乏。作为一个项目的一部分,寻找热的双同伴冷却AGB星使用GALEX档案,我们发现了一个晚M星,Y宝石,是一个强大的和可变的紫外线发射源。Y宝石是一个最好的例子,我们的技术成功的紫外成像的AGB星,以寻找双同伴。Y宝石的大而多变的紫外线通量使它成为具有质量吸积双星伴星的晚期AGB星的最突出的例子之一。紫外线辐射最有可能是由于与吸积活动和围绕主序星的圆盘有关的辐射。产生紫外线辐射的物理机制是非常有活力的,在其峰值时具有几L(太阳)的积分亮度。我们还发现弱CO J=2-1发射从Y宝石具有非常窄的线轮廓(FWHM为3.4公里/秒)。这样窄的谱线不太可能出现在外流中,并且与半径为300天文单位的轨道分子库的发射一致。Y宝石可能是后AGB星的祖先,这是一个双星系统,拥有盘,但没有流出。

英文摘要:

Binarity is believed to dramatically affect the history and geometry of mass loss in AGB and post-AGB stars, but observational evidence of binarity is sorely lacking. As part of a project to look for hot binary companions to cool AGB stars using the GALEX archive, we have discovered a late-M star, Y Gem, to be a source of strong and variable UV emission. Y Gem is a prime example of the success of our technique of UV imaging of AGB stars in order to search for binary companions. Y Gem's large and variable UV flux makes it one of the most prominent examples of a late AGB star with a mass accreting binary companion. The UV emission is most likely due to emission associated with accretion activity and a disk around a main-sequence companion star. The physical mechanism generating the UV emission is extremely energetic, with an integrated luminosity of a few L(sun) at its peak. We also find weak CO J=2-1 emission from Y Gem with a very narrow line profile (FWHM of 3.4 km/s). Such a narrow line is unlikely to arise in an outflow, and is consistent with emission from an orbiting, molecular reservoir of radius 300 AU. Y Gem may be the progenitor of the class of post-AGB stars which are binaries and possess disks but no outflows.

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