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具有碎片盘的磁性白矮星

Magnetic white dwarfs with debris discs

Baybars Külebi, K. Yavuz Ekşi, Pablo Lorén-Aguilar, Jordi Isern, Enrique García-Berro

摘要:

长期以来,人们一直认为解释磁性白矮星存在的一种可能机制是白矮星系统的合并,因为在合并产物中存在产生可持续磁场的可行机制。然而,在磁性白矮星群体中缺乏快速旋转一直被认为是这种情况下的一个问题。平滑粒子流体动力学模拟显示,在合并中,两颗质量不同的白矮星会形成一个围绕中心致密天体的圆盘。如果中心物体被磁化,它可以通过磁层与圆盘相互作用。圆盘施加的扭矩改变了恒星的自旋,而从恒星到圆盘的角动量决定了圆盘的性质。在这项工作中,我们建立了一个模型的磁盘演化的影响下的磁吸积,和恒星的角动量演化,这可以与观测进行比较。我们的模型预测,磁层相互作用的磁性白矮星与他们的磁盘的结果在一个显着的自旋下降,我们表明,磁性白矮星与相对较强的领域(大于10 MG)的观测到的旋转周期的磁性白矮星人口可以重现。我们还研究了在系统演化的后期阶段,湍流是否可以持续。当在模型中引入一个临界温度时,在该温度以下湍流不能维持,太阳附近的三个快速旋转、强磁、大质量白矮星的周期被恢复。

英文摘要:

It has long been accepted that a possible mechanism for explaining the existence of magnetic white dwarfs is the merger of a binary white dwarf system, as there are viable mechanisms for producing sustainable magnetic fields within the merger product. However, the lack of rapid rotators in the magnetic white dwarf population has been always considered a problematic issue of this scenario. Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics simulations show that in mergers in which the two white dwarfs have different masses a disc around the central compact object is formed. If the central object is magnetized it can interact with the disc through its magnetosphere. The torque applied by the disc changes the spin of the star, whereas the transferred angular momentum from the star to the disc determines the properties of the disc. In this work we build a model for the disc evolution under the effect of magnetic accretion, and for the angular momentum evolution of the star, which can be compared with the observations. Our model predicts that the magnetospheric interaction of magnetic white dwarfs with their discs results in a significant spin down, and we show that for magnetic white dwarfs with relatively strong fields (larger than 10 MG) the observed rotation periods of the magnetic white dwarf population can be reproduced. We also investigate whether turbulence can be sustained during the late phases of the evolution of the system. When a critical temperature below which turbulence is not sustained is introduced into the model, the periods of the three fast rotating, strongly magnetic, massive white dwarfs in the solar neighborhood are recovered.

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