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白矮星平均质量的引力红移测定。DBA和DB明星

A Gravitational Redshift Determination of the Mean Mass of White Dwarfs. DBA and DB Stars

Ross E. Falcon, D. E. Winget, Michael H. Montgomery, Kurtis A. Williams

摘要:

我们测量了36个白矮星(WD)的吸收线的视速度(v_app)与氦占主导地位的大气- 16 DBA和20 DBs -使用欧洲南方天文台SN Ia祖巡天(SPY)的光谱。对于我们的DBA,我们发现H-α线的平均视速度与HeI 5876 AA的平均视速度之差为6.9+/-6.9 km/s。这是由于压力效应导致的该He线的蓝移的量度。以此作为修正,我们扩展了Falcon等人(2010)采用的引力红移方法,使用HeI 5876 AA线的视速度,并对一组没有可见氢线的WD进行了首次引力红移研究。我们使用双权估计器来找到我们的WD的平均视速度<v_app>_BI(以及平均引力红移_<v_g>BI);从中我们导出平均质量<M>_BI。对于DBA,我们发现<v_app>_BI = 40.8+/-4.7 km/s,并推导出<M>_BI = 0.71 +0.04 -0.05 Msun。虽然<v_app>在91%置信水平下与DA(32.57 km/s)不同,并且表明DBA平均质量大于使用相同方法得出的正常DA(0.647 + 0.013 - 0.014 Msun; Falcon等人,2010),但我们并不认为这是严格的检测。相反,我们强调<v_app>DBA和正常DA的_BI<v_app>之间的差异不大于9.2 km/s,置信水平为95%;这相当于大约0.10 Msun。对于DBs,<v_app>在应用蓝移校正后,我们发现^He_BI = 42.9+/-8.49 km/s,并确定<M>_BI = 0.74 +0.08 -0.09 Msun。在<v_app>95%置信水平下,DB和DA的^He_BI之间的差异<v_app>小于或等于11.5 km/s(~0.12 Msun)。引力红移方法显示的平均质量比Voss等人(2007)对同一样品的光谱测定大得多。

英文摘要:

We measure apparent velocities (v_app) of absorption lines for 36 white dwarfs (WDs) with helium-dominated atmospheres -- 16 DBAs and 20 DBs -- using optical spectra taken for the European Southern Observatory SN Ia progenitor survey (SPY). We find a difference of 6.9+/-6.9 km/s in the average apparent velocity of the H-alpha lines versus that of the HeI 5876AA for our DBAs. This is a measure of the blueshift of this He line due to pressure effects. By using this as a correction, we extend the gravitational redshift method employed by Falcon et al. (2010) to use the apparent velocity of the HeI 5876AA line and conduct the first gravitational redshift investigation of a group of WDs without visible hydrogen lines. We use biweight estimators to find an average apparent velocity, <v_app>_BI, (and hence average gravitational redshift, <v_g>_BI) for our WDs; from that we derive an average mass, <M>_BI. For the DBAs, we find <v_app>_BI = 40.8+/-4.7 km/s and derive <M>_BI = 0.71 +0.04 -0.05 Msun. Though different from <v_app> of DAs (32.57 km/s) at the 91% confidence level and suggestive of a larger DBA mean mass than that for normal DAs derived using the same method (0.647 +0.013 -0.014 Msun; Falcon et al. 2010), we do not claim this as a stringent detection. Rather, we emphasize that the difference between <v_app>_BI of the DBAs and <v_app> of normal DAs is no larger than 9.2 km/s, at the 95% confidence level; this corresponds to roughly 0.10 Msun. For the DBs, we find <v_app>^He_BI = 42.9+/-8.49 km/s after applying the blueshift correction and determine <M>_BI = 0.74 +0.08 -0.09 Msun. The difference between <v_app>^He_BI of the DBs and <v_app> of DAs is less than or equal to 11.5 km/s (~0.12 Msun), at the 95% confidence level. The gravitational redshift method indicates much larger mean masses than the spectroscopic determinations of the same sample by Voss et al. (2007)...

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