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北冕座R星是什么?

What are the R Coronae Borealis Stars?

Geoffrey C. Clayton

摘要:

北冕座R星(RCB)是罕见的缺氢、富碳超巨星,以其不规则的亮度下降而闻名。在过去的几年里,发现更多RCB恒星的努力已经使已知的数量增加了一倍多,它们似乎是一个古老的,膨胀的人口的成员。有两种演化方案被提出来产生RCB星,一种是两颗白矮星的双简并,另一种是行星状星云中央恒星中最后的氦壳闪光。指向其中一个或另一个的证据有些矛盾,但RCB恒星具有大量18 O的发现使天平倾向于合并情景。如果RCB星是白矮星合并的产物,这将是一个非常令人兴奋的结果,因为RCB星将是Ia型超新星的低质量类似物。银河系中RCB星的预测数量与He/CO WD合并的预测数量一致。但是,到目前为止,在银河系中预测的5000颗RCB恒星中,只有大约65颗被发现。这个谜团还有待解开。

英文摘要:

The R Coronae Borealis (RCB) stars are rare hydrogen-deficient, carbon-rich, supergiants, best known for their spectacular declines in brightness at irregular intervals. Efforts to discover more RCB stars have more than doubled the number known in the last few years and they appear to be members of an old, bulge population. Two evolutionary scenarios have been suggested for producing an RCB star, a double degenerate merger of two white dwarfs, or a final helium shell flash in a planetary nebula central star. The evidence pointing toward one or the other is somewhat contradictory, but the discovery that RCB stars have large amounts of 18O has tilted the scales towards the merger scenario. If the RCB stars are the product of white dwarf mergers, this would be a very exciting result since RCB stars would then be low-mass analogs of type Ia supernovae. The predicted number of RCB stars in the Galaxy is consistent with the predicted number of He/CO WD mergers. But, so far, only about 65 of the predicted 5000 RCB stars in the Galaxy have been discovered. The mystery has yet to be solved.

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